From Victoria Beckham on As Me to Americast and White Wine Question Time: This week’s top podcasts

From Victoria Beckham on As Me to Americast with Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis and White Wine Question Time, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 22 February 2020 As Me Activist Sinead Burke was the first person with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, to … Read more

Joanna Trollope, Colum McCann and Aravind Adiga: This week’s best new fiction

From Joanna Trollope’s classy Mum & Dad to Apeirogon by Colum McCann and Aravind Adiga’s gripping Amnesty, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Max Davidson Published: 22:02 BST, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 22 February 2020 Mum & Dad Joanna Trollope              … Read more

Mother shares incredible photos of the moment her identical twin daughters were born at 22 weeks

A North Carolina mother has shared incredible photos of the moment her identical twin daughters became the second most premature babies in the world to survive being born at 22 weeks.  Tracey Hernandez, 33, was out Christmas shopping on December 8, 2019, when she started feeling uncomfortable.  Just hours later, she found herself in a … Read more

From No Such Thing As A Fish to The Allusionist: This week’s top podcasts

From No Such Thing As A Fish to Marlon And Jake Read Dead People, The Assassination and The Allusionist, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 29 February 2020 No Such Thing As A Fish  This blockbuster podcast began as a spin-off to QI. Every … Read more

Hilary Mantel, Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka: This week’s best new fiction

From Hilary Mantel’s cracking The Mirror & The Light to a funny debut by Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 BST, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 29 February 2020 The Mirror … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Lockdown extended for three more weeks

Dominic Raab tonight declared that coronavirus lockdown will stay for at least another three weeks despite growing alarm at the economic consequences. The Foreign Secretary confirmed the public’s ‘efforts are starting to pay off’ but draconian curbs cannot yet be lifted after he chaired a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee.  He said scientists believe … Read more

Sebastian Barry and Abi Daré: This week’s best new fiction

From Sebastian Barry’s splendidly old-fashioned A Thousand Moons to an ultimately uplifting debut from Abi Daré, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 7 March 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry                … Read more

From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the The Reality Tea & RHLSTP: This week’s top podcasts

From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the entertaining The Reality Tea, New Scientist Weekly and RHLSTP, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 16:29 BST, 13 March 2020 My Wardrobe Malfunction Every week on this fun new podcast by Susannah Constantine (of Trinny fame), a … Read more

Louise Erdrich, James Scudamore and Louise Hare: This week’s best new fiction 

From Louise Erdrich’s beguiling latest to English Monsters by James Scudamore and Louise Hare’s timely debut, this week’s best new fiction By Jeffrey Burke and Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 14 March 2020 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich          … Read more