34 h. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal suffer Williams blow; Gyokeres rejects Man United; Pedro to Chelsea; Mbeumo latest

The summer window re-opens on Monday

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37 h. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal suffer Williams blow; Gyokeres rejects Man Utd; Pedro to Chelsea; Mbeumo latest

The summer window re-opens on Monday

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45 h. ago ‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives

The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a spontaneous resistance movement and the sort of mania last experienced when the final Twilight book dropped, except this time for women in midlife rather than teenage girls. Two friends separately brought it to my house, like contraband dropped out of a biplane. Book groups hastily convened, strategically timed for when the men were out of the picture.The story opens with a 45-year-old woman about to take a road trip, a break from her husband and child and general domestic noise. She’s intending to drive from LA to New York, but is derailed in the first half hour by a young guy, Davey, in a car hire place, to whom she is passionately attracted. The next several weeks pas...

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57 h. ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

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3 d. ago Best new books to read, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Miranda July

Discover debut novelists and immersive page-turners from acclaimed authors

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4 d. ago Revealed: 'Fatal blow' that destroys Blake Lively case and means she may be days away from giving up

When Blake heard that a judge had dismissed Justin Baldoni's $400 million defamation lawsuit against her, she reportedly 'cried with relief.' Well, Lively better keep those tissue boxes close.

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5 d. ago Rayan Cherki delivers Liverpool transfer blow and fulfils 'lifelong Man City dream'

Rayan Cherki has admitted he's fulfilled his lifelong dream after signing his Manchester City contract after being linked with Liverpool this summer

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5 d. ago Liverpool blow as Jurgen Klopp's 'unbelievably important' football 'brain' joins Man City

Liverpool have suffered a blow at the hands of Manchester City after ‘the brain’ behind Jurgen Klopp’s success joins Pep Guardiola’s coaching team

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6 d. ago UK chip designer Alphawave agrees to $2.4bn takeover by US rival Qualcomm

Offer to buy the British-listed company is latest blow to the London Stock ExchangeBusiness live – latest updatesThe British chip designer Alphawave has agreed to a $2.4bn (£1.8bn) takeover by its US rival Qualcomm, the latest loss to the London Stock Exchange as it struggles to hang on to large technology companies.Alphawave, which is one of the few semiconductor companies listed in the UK, received an offer worth 183p a share and on Monday its board recommended the deal to shareholders after months of talks. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Florian Wirtz £113million bid rejected as Liverpool eye British record deal

Liverpool have been handed another blow in their pursuit of Florian Wirtz with the German seeing the Reds' latest British record bid turned down by the Bundesliga side

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1 week ago Transfer news live: Arsenal on brink of surprise £37m deal, Man United’s Mbeumo offer blow, Wirtz talks Liverpool

Follow all the latest transfer news and done deals ahead of the summer window

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1 week ago Eurozone interest rate cut expected; fintech Wise delivers blow to London stock market – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsMay was the busiest month for UK house sales since March 2022, new data from Rightmove this morning shows.Across Great Britain, the number of sales agreed is now 6% ahead of the same period last year, Rightmove reports. But London is lagging, with sales just 1% higher than a year ago. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Liverpool dealt major setback as Man City 'agree personal terms' with transfer target

Liverpool have been dealt a major blow in their summer transfer plans as Manchester City have reportedly agreed personal terms with a player who Arne Slot met for talks

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1 week ago Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal transfer news LIVE – Arne Slot and Mikel Arteta suffer huge blow

Premier League clubs are wasting no time now that the transfer window is open for business with all the big teams looking to wrap up deals before the first deadline

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1 week ago Ryan Reynolds' next movie suffers major blow amid Blake Lively legal drama with Justin Baldoni

Reynolds is at the top of a glittering cast including Aubrey Plaza , Jason Momoa , Addison Rae , Vince Vaughn , Eric André, Dan Levy and Rob Delaney.

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1 week ago Revealed: Blake Lively's groveling texts, voicemails and emails that Taylor Swift is GHOSTING

In a dramatic new blow for Swift's ex-best friend Blake Lively it seems Taylor can't come to the phone right now...

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1 week ago Blake Lively suffers huge blow as judge issues devastating ruling in case against Justin Baldoni

Blake Lively refusal to release her medical records to Justin Baldoni has hit a snag as the judge ruled both parties have to come to agree whether her 'emotional distress' will be permanently dismissed.

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1 week ago Man United can deal Liverpool unseen transfer blow with £50m Bryan Mbeumo deal

Manchester United are interested in Brentford forward Bryan Mbeumo - a move which could impact their rivals Liverpool in the transfer market

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1 week ago Orbán and Le Pen cheer Karol Nawrocki’s election as Polish president

Far-right leaders congratulate nationalist candidate as result deals blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU agendaEurope live – latest updatesFar-right leaders in Europe have welcomed the victory of the nationalist opposition candidate, Karol Nawrocki, in Poland’s presidential elections, a result that deals a huge blow to the centre-right prime minister Donald Tusk’s reform and pro-EU agenda.Nawrocki, a conservative historian and former amateur boxer, won Sunday’s election with 50.89% of the vote, final figures showed on Monday, ahead of his rival, Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal Warsaw mayor and an ally of Tusk, who secured 49.11%. Continue reading...

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