5 h. ago We work in a bookshop — these are our 5 favourite books of all time

Looking for your next read? Five booksellers from across the UK have shared their favourite books of all time - and there's something for everyone.

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19 h. ago Flights are 'almost always cheaper' on two days of the month

A travel expert has revealed the best time to book a holiday, including the perfect time to get the cheapest flights and hotels - and it's not as far in advance as you might think

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7 d. ago My dad said this last minute activity was the best Father’s Day gift he’s ever received

If you’re looking for last minute Father’s Day presents, booking an activity to spend quality time together is perfect – and you can currently save up to 75% at Virgin Experience Days

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7 d. 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...

Events

8 d. ago Bloody Scotland 2025: Here are 10 of the biggest names appearing at the Stirling crime writing festival

Everybody heading to the book festival in Stirling is sure to have a bloody good time.

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9 d. ago Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss

Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novelClaire Adam’s 2019 novel Golden Child was her debut, but it felt like the work of a master. It was tender, ravishing, shattering – you believed every word of it. The book had an effortless narrative authority that most first-time novelists would kill for.Love Forms is every bit as alive and convincing, and returns us to Trinidad, with its potent fizz of colour, heat and political instability. But unlike the earlier book, it’s also set partly in south London – the writer’s own home turf – and has a mother, rather than a father, at its heart. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Scotland's best whisky distilleries 'to visit this summer' named by National Geographic

There is no time like the present to book a tour of a distillery.

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2 w. ago Spurs sack Ange Postecoglou as head coach after two years in job: football news – live

Australian departs despite Europa League gloryRead the latest edition of Football DailyAsian World Cup qualifiers: Jordan and Uzbekistan have secured qualification at the World Cup finals for the very first time, while South Korea also booked their place in the tournament for the 11th time on the bounce. The three teams join Argentina, New Zealand, Iran and Japan in qualifying for World Cup 2026, while the USA, Canada and Mexico qualify automatically as co-hosts.Uzbekistan, who count Manchester City defender Abdukodir Khusanov among their number, booked their place courtesy of a scoreless draw with the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, while a 3-0 win over Oman was enough to secure Jordan’s place at the tournament. South Korea beat Iraq 2-0 to win their place in the Fifa tombola. Continue reading...

Society

2 w. ago Spurs to sound out Thomas Frank, Liverpool relaxed over Díaz comments: football news – live

Men’s transfer interactive | Women’s transfer interactiveRead the latest edition of Football DailyAsian World Cup qualifiers: Jordan and Uzbekistan have secured qualification at the World Cup finals for the very first time, while South Korea also booked their place in the tournament for the 11th time on the bounce. The three teams join Argentina, New Zealand, Iran and Japan in qualifying for World Cup 2026, while the USA, Canada and Mexico qualify automatically as co-hosts.Uzbekistan, who count Manchester City defender Abdukodir Khusanov among their number, booked their place courtesy of a scoreless draw with the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, while a 3-0 win over Oman was enough to secure Jordan’s place at the tournament. South Korea beat Iraq 2-0 to win their place in the Fifa tombola. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Liverpool relaxed despite Luis Díaz comments, Gabriel signs Arsenal deal: football news – live

Men’s transfer interactive | Women’s transfer interactiveRead the latest edition of Football Daily | And mail BarryAsian World Cup qualifiers: Jordan and Uzbekistan have secured qualification at the World Cup finals for the very first time, while South Korea also booked their place in the tournament for the 11th time on the bounce. The three teams join Argentina, New Zealand, Iran and Japan in qualifying for World Cup 2026, while the USA, Canada and Mexico qualify automatically as co-hosts.Uzbekistan, who count Manchester City defender Abdukodir Khusanov among their number, booked their place courtesy of a scoreless draw with the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, while a 3-0 win over Oman was enough to secure Jordan’s place at the tournament. South Korea beat Iraq 2-0 to win their place in the Fifa tombola. Continue reading...

Economics

2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat book is free with Audible deal in time for Father's Day

Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm is free to listen to with an Audible Premium Plus trial, and would make the perfect gift for dad this Father's Day

Economics

3 w. ago Summer holidays 2025: when are the best days to book time of work off to maximise summer sun in the UK?

These are the top moments to take time off and make every sunny day count ☀️

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3 w. ago ‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcastThree years after the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Amazon, two major new projects will celebrate their lives and work – and the Indigenous communities and rainforests both men sought to protect.Friends of Phillips have completed the book he was writing at the time of his death – How to Save the Amazon – which will be published in the UK, the US and Brazil on 27 May. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Fiona Phillips, 64, is seen for the first time in a year in lovely new photo as she promotes book about her Alzheimer's journey

Fiona Phillips has been pictured for the first time in over a year to promote her new book, Remember When: My life with Alzheimer's, amid her battle with the disease.

Culture

4 w. ago Evil twins and vivacious nonagenarians in this month's popular fiction; MONA ACTS OUT by Mischa Berlinski, BAD INFLUENCE by C J Wray, JULIE CHAN IS DEAD by Liann Zhang

Buckle up for a rip roaring good time with the best popular fiction books out this month

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4 w. ago Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane AustenMy earliest reading memoryAt a secondhand book sale at school, a kind teacher recommended my mum buy Brian Jacques’s Redwall. Noble monastic mice battle thuggish rats: catnip for a seven-year-old.My favourite book growing upThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The mad robots and two-headed aliens are great for the teenage brain, but beneath all that is the sadness, and the questions about why life has to be like this, all filtered through poor Arthur Dent. I sometimes pull it off the shelf to read half a page, just to remind myself how comedy writing is done. Continue reading...

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