From Peter Ho Davies to Hafsa Zayyan, Olivia Sudjic and Jeff Noon: This week’s best new fiction   

From Peter Ho Davies’ touching novel to Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic, a powerful debut by Hafsa Zayyan and Jeff Noon’s latest, the best new fiction By Anthony Gardner and Madeleine Feeny and Hephzibah Anderson and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 16 January 2021 A Lie Someone Told … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: How common to say hello before noon! The Crown (Season 4) Part II

SCENE 1 Prince Charles (looking vexed and pained): I – I – I don’t quite know how to put this. Really most awkward! But will you, er, er — I’m so sorry, but, for the life of me, I can’t quite remember your name! Diana: Diana! Prince Charles: How clever of you. I knew it … Read more

High noon at high table: Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, refuses to resign

All academic institutions like to think of themselves as a cut above. But there is probably no institution in Britain quite as grand as Christ Church, Oxford.  Founded by Henry VIII in 1546, it is one of the richest of Oxford University’s 39 colleges, with architecture designed by Sir Christopher Wren and an endowment approaching … Read more