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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fruit and nut cake from Bologna, or certosino di Bologna

A bejewelled and honey-basted fruit cake that makes a lovely Christmas centrepiece and celebrates the life of late writer Gillian Riley

The Guardian - UK

The Borrowers review – Mary Norton’s classic brought to vivid little-and-large life

The audience sees above and below the floorboards – with a little help from puppets – as Mark Babych’s production cleverly plays with scale

The Guardian - UK

“A good heavy metal song is like a good horror movie, and vice versa. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil!“: Inside Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s lifelong love of horror

When it comes to horror Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is the man

Metal Hammer

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Queer review – seedily terrific Daniel Craig carries Luca Guadagnino’s artificial-looking drama

The Call Me by Your Name director’s overlong William Burroughs adaptation boasts some fine performances, but any gritty realism feels totally manicured

The Guardian - UK

The best children’s and YA books of 2024

From a boy on a snowy midnight adventure to a gothic family caper via a young offender inspired by poetry, our critics pick their favourite titles of the year

The Guardian - UK

Charles Dickens' characters come alive in a Dutch town enamored with the English author

The Dutch city of Deventer has been transformed into a 19th-century English city where 950 people in costumes brought characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life

The Independent UK

Sarah Jessica Parker gets a ‘golden ticket’ to the judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novel

The Guardian - UK

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On the trail of France’s first female World War II correspondent

When General de Gaulle arrived in Paris on 25 August, 1944 to mark the French capital’s liberation from Nazi occupation, his official reporter was by his side to document the historic moment. That reporter was France's first female WWII correspondent, but her name was lost to history – until a…

Radio France Internationale

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead audiobook review – a dark chapter in America’s past

A pair of boys try to survive the horrors of a US reform school during the segregated 60s in this Pulitzer-winning novel

The Guardian - UK

The 20 best books of the year, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs

The Independent UK

Best-selling Scottish novel brought to life in theatre tour

A BEST-SELLING novel by one of Scotland’s greatest living novelists is to be brought to life on stage early in the New Year.

The National (Scotland)

‘Very generous and utterly terrifying’: novelist Edward Carey on Pinter, puppets and his spell living in a theatre

The author, whose latest gothic novel is inspired by his lifelong love of theatre, on his journey from stage to page – and why his house in Austin is home to a 4ft doll of Madame Tussaud

The Guardian - UK

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht review – blackly comic autofiction

A writer takes his elderly mother on a road trip through the Swiss Alps in an attempt to break with his privileged family’s dysfunctional past

The Guardian - UK

Anatomy Of A Wardrobe: Candice Brathwaite on manifesting the wardrobe of her dreams

Watch as we take an exclusive look inside Candice's wardrobe

Marie Claire

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The Guardian view on Christmas shows: they are fairy tales for our times

From Ballet Shoes to Wicked, stories of female empowerment and friendship are triumphing on stage and screen

Latin Times

Cartel Expert Anabel Hernández Wins Lawsuit Against Ninel Conde After Revealing Her Relationship With a Cartel Leader

The Mexican journalist revealed that she has won a lawsuit filed against her by the Mexican actress Ninel Conde for defamation.

WhatToWatch

A Woman of Substance: cast, plot, filming news and everything we know

A Woman of Substance on Channel 4, starring Brenda Blethyn and Jessica Reynolds, is an epic saga based on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s famous novel.

The Conversation

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will delight fans of Peter Jackson’s trilogy – but offers no fresh twist

In a 1951 letter to the publisher Milton Waldman, J.R.R. Tolkien described his youthful ambition to create a cycle of connected legends, some of which would be tales told in full and others that would exist merely as scraps and fragments.

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Shrink by Rachel M. Thomas: a compelling graphic novel about navigating fatphobia as a young woman

What is it like to move through the world when everyone tries to change who and what you are? This is the fundamental experience that the graphic novel Shrink explores in its stylistic depiction of the author’s autobiographical experience of being fat.

Marie Claire

13 Books for When You Want to Curl Up and Read About Murder

Calling all fans of "cozy mysteries."

Reason

Kindle Version of "The Digital Fourth Amendment" Is Now Available

You have to wait until January for the physical book, but you can read the electronic version now.

GamesRadar

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees creator Patrick Horvath's satirical sci-fi Free For All gets a range of awesome variant covers

Exclusive | Check out all of Free For All's covers

Evening Standard

Queen praises community resilience as library torched during riots reopens

Spellow Community Hub and Library in Walton, Liverpool, has been closed since August.

The Independent UK

The book behind Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realism - here’s why I love it

The seminal novel follows seven generations of the Buendía family in an isolated town

Evening Standard

'We don’t stock that sort of book’: Woman who self-published story for autistic son inspires TV show

EXCLUSIVE The Jodie Whittaker animated series returns for a Christmas special along with a charity single performed by singer Paloma Faith

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