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MYSTERIOUS: 7 - You Need To See This

From sunny novels that revel in the picturesque to stark reports from one of the poorest regions in northern Europe, this county’s literature deserves more than a visit

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‘The house sings with colour and with life’: how the fashion world fell for Charleston, the Bloomsbury set’s country home

From Virginia Woolf and her circle to Kate Moss’s Vogue shoot, the unconventional Sussex farmhouse has captured imaginations across the decades

The Guardian - UK

Home alone, the days felt ripe to fill, but then reality returned

For the first time in years, I have a week by myself. I can have an affair, write a great novel, eat all the best biscuits

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Exhibition to explore the Bloomsbury Group through fashion

Supported by Dior, Charleston’s ‘Bring No Clothes’ explores the Bloomsbury Group’s use of – and influence on – fashion, featuring works by Dior, Fendi, Comme des Garçons and more, alongside original clothing and ephemera

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Personal copy of Virginia Woolf's debut novel digitised

Virginia Woolf is considered as one of the important modernist authors of the 20th century. And now, her personal copy of her debut novel 'The Voyage Out', which was rediscovered in 2021, has now been digitised for the very first time.

The Times of India

Virginia Woolf's copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library. What do her newly digitised notes reveal?

One of just two copies of Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), annotated with her handwriting and preparations to revise it for a US edition, was recently rediscovered in the Fisher Library Rare Books Collection at the University of Sydney.

The Conversation

No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it

Having friends over to eat is part of who we are, with set piece encounters feeding into plays, films and books. Talk of their demise is premature, writes Rachel Cooke

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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin review – when freestyle thinking goes too far

Elkin’s capacious survey of female artists who focused on the body might have worked better as a collection of essays

The Guardian - UK

The last word on: Hope

Kicking off our new monthly series about emotions in literature, Sophie Ratcliffe finds the best literary descriptions of hopefulness

The Guardian - UK

Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

The Conversation

The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages

Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process

The Guardian - UK

Ashleigh Nugent: ‘Black stories were always about London’

The writer on the long gestation of Locks – his debut novel set in 90s Merseyside – his work in prisons and what Virginia Woolf has taught him

The Guardian - UK

Virginia Woolf would have loved The Great British Sewing Bee – as three of her novels prove

The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing Bee champion. Now in its ninth series, the backstories of this year’s contestants show how sewing often provides an intimate, material connection…

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‘Deeper than a sexual betrayal’: what happens if your partner doesn’t like your writing?

In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions

The Conversation

Friday essay: cancellation or conflicted joy – grappling with the work of our 'art monsters'

Author Claire Dederer started off writing a book about the film director Roman Polanski. Forty-five years ago, Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

The Guardian - UK

A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The Guardian - UK

Plot by Claudia Rankine review – the lives of mothers

The award-winning author of Citizen turns her mind to the complexities of balancing art and parenting

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Xiaolu Guo: ‘It would be tacky to ask: can you forgive me for writing this?’

The Chinese-British author on leaving her family to find creative freedom, the effect on those she writes about in her revealing new book, and the power of Moby-Dick

The Guardian - UK

Full of Days review – the wonderfully strange artist discovered in a charity shop haul

Hermione Burton was an amateur painter with immaculate outfits but a turbulent life. Now artist Andy Holden has excavated her rollercoaster story in a film starring Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell

France 24

British actor Tilda Swinton on playing two roles in 'The Eternal Daughter'

Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton has worked with some of the world's most gifted directors: Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, Bong Joon-ho and the Coen brothers. Her latest film is her third with her longtime friend and collaborator, British director Joanna Hogg. "The Eternal Daughter" is a contemplation of life and death,…

Liverpool Echo

Antiques Road Trip presenter makes guess about painting without seeing it

Philip called on his co-presenter for advice

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Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie

Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars

The Independent UK

‘I want to write and I am going to write’: The lost world of Zelda Fitzgerald

Her husband F Scott Fitzgerald called her ‘America’s first flapper’, but Zelda Fitzgerald, who died 75 years ago, was much more than the tragic wife and muse of a famous male writer. Kat Lister explores her literary legacy

Marie Claire

The 15 Greatest Speeches of All Time, by 15 Inspirational Women

We celebrate the greatest speeches of all time, spoken by women who have changed the world for the better

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