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FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: The Agatha Christie Cure by Cathy Rentzenbrink

One recent Christmas, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling memoirist Cathy Rentzenbrink finds herself drained by life’s upheavals. In need of comfort and escape, she turns to he...

What does it take to discover that life is ‘a quietly loving thing’?

Bestselling author Caitlin Moran believed she was searching for hope in a hopeless world. Then, she started to take note of the simple things.

Katriona O'Sullivan: 'Trauma stays forever, but I have a loving voice now'

From Poor to Hunger, Katriona O'Sullivan is quickly becoming one of the defining memoirists of this century. Fresh from ieStyle Live, she talks to Gemma Fullam about the impact of...

Lessons From 'I'm Still Here: A Cat's Purpose Forever'

Rather than focusing on the inevitable grief, author Cathryn Michon shows us how to cherish a cat's presence even after they're gone.

She Came Around the Counter

On the day of her mother's funeral, with rain splitting open a dry summer sky, Helen walked into an office store in Taree, Australia, to print a eulogy. It was nearing the end of 2...

A moment that changed me: My mother fell off a mountain – and my life began again

A bad breakup had made me afraid I would be mired in anger for ever. But on that family hike, in our fear and horror as we awaited the air ambulance, my old hurts took on a differe...

“I wanted to retrieve my late grandma’s voice for my mum. Then I realised what she was really talking about”: How The An...

Catherine Anne Davies’ latest album, As We Once Were, acts as an answer to the questions of her previous record and confounds tragedy to link four generations of her family

My Sister And I Were All We Had. One Morning Changed Everything.

“Something’s wrong with my face,” my 17-year-old sister Kristin said.It was 7 am in Madison, Wisconsin. I was getting ready for work when she called out from the living room, her v...

A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go

“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsi...

Living Without My Big Sister

My older sister and I were both named after our grandmothers. She, Rebecca, and me, Kathryn. Becky and Katie. After that, our parents ran out of grandmothers, so they had to get mo...

Murderous Millionaires, Gobby Ghosts and a Booker Shortlistee—14 Gripping New Releases to Read Your Way into Autumn

From exciting new launches to prize-shortlisted reads, the books to see you through autumn.

Book of the Week: The descent of Catherine Chidgey

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

"It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all."

Unfinished Business

Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels have found a new language to evoke the often circular, abstracted nature of human consciousness.

Jess Kidd: ‘I grew up as part of a large, rowdy London-Irish family in a house with few books but many talented storytel...

My Life in Books

How a British bookstore has extended its shelf life

Katie Clapham offers warm and witty dispatches about her experiences as the owner of Storytellers, an independent bookshop in a coastal England town.

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review – brilliant portrait of an existential crisis

A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal MassachusettsArtie Dam is a much-loved history teacher from coasta...

Notebook Number Nine by Jackie Carreira

One Smile At A Time Notebook Number Nine by Jackie Carreira is the most beautiful contemporary novel that sank into my heart and soul. I never wanted it to end. The tale is one of...

A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT Orange Tree, Richmond

      Twelve years ago, Priyanga Burford came upon an unusual, striking story that moved her to admiration and fellowship: Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, like her half-Indian, was one o...

MARIA CARGILL: detail-hungry

I lie here in the white, staring at the ceiling trying not to read too far into the lyrics of your music, not to project my grief onto yours– this is the curse of the detail-hungry...

The Sealskin Was Always Mine: Remembering the Woman You Were Before You Were Told Who to Be

Do you remember the girl who was curious and excitable before she learned what was sensible? Do you recall the woman who had dreams before she became responsible for everyone else’...

Winning the Nobel prize in literature only underlines Anne Carson’s infinite genius | Yiyun Li

When her sons died, the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinar...

Tearing a strip off a children's entertainer and a wintry Sarah Moss... this month's contemporary fiction: Fabulous (&am...

Sara Lawrence reviews

I Channelled The Grief Of Losing My Husband Into A Writing Career To Help Others Feel Less Alone

By Nimity Boronia Long before grief touched our family and cancer changed our lives, I found comfort in writing. I loved picking out a notepad, sitting with a pen, and thinking abo...