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Features

<p>Helen Fielding, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Malorie Blackman, Jeanette Winterson and more give their advice</p>

National Year of Reading 2026

‘Don’t google the Beckhams’: Britain’s top authors on how to read more

A drastic drop in reading for pleasure has prompted a national campaign to get Britain to fall back in love with books. Leading authors, including Helen Fielding, Salman Rushdie and Tom Fletcher, tell Annabel Nugent how to bring back your inner bookworm

In Focus

How Take That went from ‘national jokes to national treasures’

Comment

Nigella Lawson, Queen of the Innuendo, will save Bake Off

<p>Melania Trump in her new documentary ‘Melania’, which comes amid a particularly problematic time for her husband</p>

In Focus

How the Melania Trump documentary became 2026’s most mysterious film

Features & Reviews

Comment

How wolf in sheep’s clothing Stephen proved to be the apex Traitor

<p>Harry Styles is full of curiosity on his new single, 'Aperture'</p>

Not trying so hard pays off on Harry Styles’s giddy new single

<p>Éanna Hardwicke by Pip. Styling: Tom O’Dell. Grooming: Alexis Day.</p>

Interview

Meet the man playing Roy Keane: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

<p>Red lights indicate recording in process: Arctic Monkeys in 2006</p>

In focus

The story behind Arctic Monkeys’ earth-quaking debut album

The Saturday Interview

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>

The Saturday Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

<p>Malachi Kirby: ‘Most of the characters that I’ve played have been traumatised. Weirdly, that is my comfort zone’</p>

the saturday interview

Malachi Kirby: ‘The cameras were off at this point, but I was shaking’

Rising Stars

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>

Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

<p>Josh Finan: ‘There’s a certain amount of pressure that builds up in your body over the days’</p>

Interview

Josh Finan on his searing prison drama Waiting for the Out

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>

Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

<p>Petticrew stars in a classic tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the Troubles</p>

Interview

Lola Petticrew: ‘Calling it the Troubles minimises what it really was’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

Jill Scott appeared as a guest on 'Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations' podcast

Jill Scott: ‘I love seeing a confident woman, in any shape or size’

Good Vibrations with KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall reflects on the ‘unwelcome side’ of her early fame

Ella Eyre is a guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Ella Eyre: ‘I’ve had to unlearn what I was shown early in my career’

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘There have been days where I thought I was done’

News

The Countdown

<p>Tom Cruise and Michelle Monaghan in ‘Mission: Impossible III’</p>

The Countdown

15 times a director walked away from a blockbuster

<p>Overrated?: Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’</p>

The most overrated films of the 21st century

<p>Glast from the past: A snapshot of the famous festival from 1982</p>

17 of the weirdest things we’ve seen at Glastonbury

<p>Not even music’s greats are immune to writing absolutely terrible songs</p>

13 worst songs by brilliant artists, from The Beatles to Taylor Swift

Independent TV

Tom Hiddleston hints at The Night Manager future ahead of finale

Gary Barlow ‘didn’t leave house for more than a year’

Cast of Bridgerton Season 4 Get Real About Representation

<p>Carol Kirkwood announcing her decision to leave on BBC Breakfast (BBC Breakfast)</p>

Carol Kirkwood tears up reading viewer messages after announcing exit

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Discover Orlando’s hidden treasures beyond the parks

Entertainment deals

<p>Bag discounts on 4K, OLED and smart TVs</p>

Best TV deals for November 2025, from Sony, Samsung and more

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Best iPad deals for November 2025, selected by an expert

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Sydney Sweeney could face charges over latest bra stunt – here's what happened

tv

Bridgerton season 4: Five Bridgerton locations you can visit in real life

tv

Bridgerton season 4: Everything we know from cast to release date and plot

viral

‘House burping’ is the bizarre new home trend that’s got the internet divided: ‘I’m too European for this’

science-tech

Archaeologists discover the lost 'Book of the Dead' buried for thousands of years

science-tech

Archaeologists discover the lost 'Book of the Dead' buried for thousands of years

tv

When is Bridgerton season 4 out? Major change is coming to new season of show

politics

Karoline Leavitt appears to distance White House from Kristi Noem comments on 'domestic terrorism'

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