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The term woke has been used in mainstream politics and British culture since 2016

In a vintage year, when currently nothing else in the world is seemingly funny, the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced an extended shortlist of twelve titles in contention for this year’s award, in recognition o

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Five star reviews for the 12-part drama, Conversations With Friends, directed again by Lenny Abrahamson, delivering half-hour episodes starting on BBC Three on 15 May at 10pm.

I dreamed of writing a book — here’s how I did it and you can too Phoebe Luckhurst Last April, as ambulance after ambulance made high-speed slaloms down my south London street and the Government’s evening briefings increasingly acquired the ghoulish unreality of nightmare, I survived by creating an imaginary world, and retreating into it. I started writing my novel The Lock In over the Easter weekend, in the first throes of lockdown 1.0, when the quiet and the isolation w...

Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera / Viking Several authors tackle colonialism in very different ways, from Alex Renton confronting his own family’s involvement in slavery in Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Enslaving Past (Canongate), and Sathnam Sanghera in Kehinde Andrews, who rather more controversially takes on capitalism and racism together in The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Allen Lane). Gender and Identity Politics Likewise gender and ...