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The best books to read in summer 2025
Summer books

The best books to read in summer 2025

Looking for some holiday reading? Here’s our pick of the new summer crop

This summer proves Hollywood is out of ideas – but horror movies might just give something worth watching
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This summer proves Hollywood is out of ideas – but horror movies might just give something worth watching

Offbeat horror films are providing
a welcome respite from endless reboots

This new opera influenced by homeless children shines light on UK’s housing crisis
Opera

This new opera influenced by homeless children shines light on UK’s housing crisis

Garsington Youth Company puts the spotlight on homelessness and its effects on children

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the ‘inhumane’ way mothers are cut off from their children
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New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the ‘inhumane’ way mothers are cut off from their children

From The Traitors to White Lotus: Here’s 6 dystopian TV predictions that could come true in 2025
Lucy Sweet

From The Traitors to White Lotus: Here’s 6 dystopian TV predictions that could come true in 2025

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Superheroes, sinners and sequels: The ultimate guide to the most anticipated films of 2025
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Superheroes, sinners and sequels: The ultimate guide to the most anticipated films of 2025

Donkeys, Dickens and Gareth Southgate: All the best TV and radio shows for Christmas 2024
Christmas TV

Donkeys, Dickens and Gareth Southgate: All the best TV and radio shows for Christmas 2024

Will Gladiator II be a useful cautionary tale about putting self-serving man-babies in charge?
Film

Will Gladiator II be a useful cautionary tale about putting self-serving man-babies in charge?

Arnie said he’d be back… How The Terminator and other classics are taking over cinemas – again
Film

Arnie said he’d be back… How The Terminator and other classics are taking over cinemas – again

Apoocalypse Now: Joe Lycett vs Sewage on Channel 4 shames UK’s privatised water companies
TV

Apoocalypse Now: Joe Lycett vs Sewage on Channel 4 shames UK’s privatised water companies

Harry Plotter and the Goblet of Fear: How The Traitors became the most unmissable show on TV
TV

Harry Plotter and the Goblet of Fear: How The Traitors became the most unmissable show on TV

This is everything to look out for in the world of jazz in 2024
Music

This is everything to look out for in the world of jazz in 2024

From poltergeists to Paddington: Here’s all the films to look forward to in 2024
Film

From poltergeists to Paddington: Here’s all the films to look forward to in 2024

This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale
theatre and community

This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale

Is Talk To Me the scariest film of the year?
horror

Is Talk To Me the scariest film of the year?

Dolly Parton: ‘I’m not an activist. I’m not a feminist. I’m not any of that and yet I’m all of that’
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Dolly Parton: ‘I’m not an activist. I’m not a feminist. I’m not any of that and yet I’m all of that’

The best kids’ books for summer 2023
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The best kids’ books for summer 2023

Summer books: The hottest fiction to read in 2023
best reads

Summer books: The hottest fiction to read in 2023

Rejoice! Columbo is back (in spirit)
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Rejoice! Columbo is back (in spirit)

Fast X: Everything you need to know before the tenth Fast and Furious
Film

Fast X: Everything you need to know before the tenth Fast and Furious

Eurovision is here and guess what? The UK’s good at it now
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Eurovision is here and guess what? The UK’s good at it now

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The Mandalorian is back, and there’s never been a better time for Star Wars fans
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The Mandalorian is back, and there’s never been a better time for Star Wars fans

Spring reads: Best of this season’s book releases
seasonal recommendations

Spring reads: Best of this season’s book releases

In The Strays, horror confronts code-switching, class and the Black British experience
Horror

In The Strays, horror confronts code-switching, class and the Black British experience

DC’s The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, is coming and it looks… quite good?
superheroes

DC’s The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, is coming and it looks… quite good?