11 h. ago Winfrey's new book club pick marks the return of an old favorite, Wally Lamb

For her next book club pick, Oprah Winfrey is highlighting an author she has praised even before she had a book club

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33 h. ago Brentford ace named Premier League's best value player but it's not Bryan Mbeumo

Brentford have mastered a brilliant recruitment strategy that has seen the club pick up bargains from across Europe, but one star has been named the Premier League’s best value player

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1 week ago Bruno Fernandes given new £100m transfer ultimatum as heat turned up on Man Utd captain

The Manchester United captain must decide whether to leave Old Trafford in a remarkable £100million transfer that would see him pick up £700k-a-week, and where club bosses may well feel they need the money more than him after their disastrous season

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1 week ago Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes handed new £100m transfer ultimatum

The Manchester United captain must decide whether to leave Old Trafford in a remarkable £100million transfer that would see him pick up £700k-a-week, and where club bosses may well feel they need the money more than him after their disastrous season

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4 w. ago Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is Winfrey's latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers

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4 w. ago 'A modern day Jane Austen': The best Literary Fiction out now

Claire Allfree reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

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4 w. ago The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong review – heartbreak and hope

The follow-up to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a tale of precarity and connection in smalltown ConnecticutOcean Vuong’s second novel is a 416‑page tour of the edgeland between aspirational fantasy and self-deception. It opens with a long slow pan over the fictional small town of East Gladness, Connecticut, beginning with ghosts that rise “as mist over the rye across the tracks” and ending on a bridge where the camera finds a young man called Hai –“19, in the midnight of his childhood and a lifetime from first light” – preparing to drown himself. There’s an almost lazy richness to the picture: the late afternoon sun, the “moss so lush between the wooden rail ties that, at a certain angle of thick, verdant light, it looks like algae”, the junkyard “packed with school buses in various stages of amnesia”.His poetic credentials established, the author of the bestselling autofictional On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous gives narrative its head. Instead of jumping from the...

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