Liese Spencer
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Don’t look away…. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse
October 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Don’t look away…. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse
Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’
August 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’
The year after my son died in childbirth | Poppy Noor
July 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The year after my son died in childbirth | Poppy Noor
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‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize
May 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize
‘This treasure belongs to the nation’: Miriam Margolyes and Brian Cox join calls to save Wordsworth’s home
April 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
‘This treasure belongs to the nation’: Miriam Margolyes and Brian Cox join calls to save Wordsworth’s home
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‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?
‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?
The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity
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April 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?
‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm
April 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm
Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy
March 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy
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‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel
‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel
Colm Tóibín, Katherine Rundell, Rebecca Kuang and other leading novelists celebrate the author in her 250th year
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March 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism
February 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism
Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins
February 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins
What if you never come down? The 90s clubbers who wouldn’t let the night end – a picture essay
February 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What if you never come down? The 90s clubbers who wouldn’t let the night end – a picture essay
Moving and thoughtful interview with Nobel winner Han Kang: ‘I want to be hopeful’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea
With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize
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February 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Moving and thoughtful interview with Nobel winner Han Kang: ‘I want to be hopeful’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea
February 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea
Author Tony Tulathimutte: ‘The great millennial theme? Resentment’
January 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Author Tony Tulathimutte: ‘The great millennial theme? Resentment’
Nero book award winner Adam S Leslie: ‘I’ve never had much interest in boring, everyday life’
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Nero book award winner Adam S Leslie: ‘I’ve never had much interest in boring, everyday life’
‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too?
January 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too?
David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream
January 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’
January 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’
Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket | Jonathan Liew
January 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket | Jonathan Liew