33 h. ago The Land of Sweet Forever review: How to kill Harper Lee’s reputation

Harper Lee’s third book is a shameful scraping of the barrel by her publishers

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3 d. ago I'm a royal style writer and I know Kate Middleton would love Boden's new autumn collection

The high street is seriously impressing this season. When M&S' new collection landed last month, I was instantly obsessed. Then came John Lewis. And now, it's Boden that I can't get enough of.

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7 d. ago The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great

If we regard this book as literature, it is an unqualified failure. But these juvenile stories and essays shed fascinating light on the repression of Lee’s early lifeWhen a new book is published by a writer dead for a decade, there is always some suspicion that the bottom of the barrel is being scraped. When the writer is Harper Lee, there is also the unpleasant aftertaste of the release of her second novel, 2015’s Go Set a Watchman, which was promoted as a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, when in fact it was a formless early draft. The publication was also surrounded by controversy over whether the aged Lee, by then seriously disabled, had really consented to its publication.This new book, The Land of Sweet Forever, is a much more conventional enterprise: a collection of Lee’s unpublished short stories and previously uncollected essays. No deception is being practised here, and if people want to read the lesser scribblings of a favourite author, it is surel...

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1 week ago The Barbour x Arket collection has landed – here’s everything to know

The Swedish and British brands are bringing joy to the winter months

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1 week ago The Bella Freud x M&S collection has landed: DINAH VAN TULLEKEN picks her best pieces

Sharpen your elbows for today's launch across UK stores and online. Here are the pieces you'll want to grab before they're gone...

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1 week ago Shopping for your winter coat? Look no further than the ARKET X Barbour collaboration

The British arbiter of waxed cotton jackets and countryside glamour, Barbour, has chosen to collaborate with ARKET this autumn.

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2 w. ago The cosy autumn homeware collection with lamps, pillows and candles for under £100

The Heal's autumn collection has just landed, and it's full of cosy staples to help you create a warm and inviting space in your home. The range includes candles, cushions, tableware, mugs, and more

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2 w. ago Barbour teases collaboration with high street brand – here’s everything to know

The Swedish and British brands are bringing joy to the winter months

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3 w. ago Gwyneth Paltrow and Apple Martin's GAP collection has landed in the UK

Gwyneth Paltrow and daughter Apple Martin have teamed up to release a new GAP collection perfect for 'two generations'. 

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3 w. ago Virgil Abloh: The Codes review – archive show sews up status as his generation’s leading designer

Grand Palais, Paris Teeming display from Abloh’s vast collection shows him spinning Evian bottles, Air Jordans and mixtapes into landmark looksBefore his death in 2021 aged 41, Virgil Abloh was often called the most important fashion designer of his generation. Not the best – not even close. Even at Louis Vuitton, where he became the first Black man to oversee the label’s menswear in 2018, he preferred to print on T-shirts rather than tailor them. But as a pop-culture-obsessed polymath who approached fashion with a teenager’s enthusiasm, his high-low take on streetwear sought to open up the rarefied world of fashion to kids like him who had historically been shut out of it, whether he was putting his stamp on Evian bottles, Ikea rugs, or £8,000 bags.The scale of his impact on design can’t be measured in stuff, but Virgil Abloh: The Codes, the first exhibition devoted purely to the late fashion designer’s whopping 20,000-item archive, demonstrates that he was as much a voracious coll...

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