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Stephanie Cole obituary

Stage and screen actor admired for her television roles in Waiting for God, Tenko and Doc Martin

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20

Frances Stonor Saunders obituary

Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13

Tradwife fiction is this year’s most talked-about literary genre

THE READING LIST: Tradwife influencers are lightning rods for debates about gender roles and conservative ideology. Now they are literary protagonists too. Katie Rosseinsky explores the rise of this new genre and its most talked-about entry yet, ‘Yesteryear’ by Caro Claire Burke

The Independent UK · Apr 11

Digested week: Climate warning provides more fuel for Brits to talk about weather

Heatwave and an invitation to name storms created record-breaking opportunities to indulge nation’s favourite pastime

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2025

‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2025

Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only…

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2025

Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review – the mercurial Muriel Spark

The author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie could be as prickly and problematic as her famous heroine. This account sheds new light on her formative years

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025

Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar

Before she reached a new level of TV celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic, absurd ‘aunt’ persona

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024

Dame Maggie Smith: Oscar-winning Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star dies, aged 89

Giant of stage and screen was one of Britain’s most successul stars

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2024

The Abandoners by Begoña Gómez Urzaiz review – absent mothers

An idiosyncratic study of women who leave their children, from Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark to Joni Mitchell

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2024