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5 off tickets to the Southbank Centre's Literature & Spo. ..
13+ hour, 55+ min ago (155+ words) Friday 24 April 2026 The Southbank Centre's Literature & Spoken Word programme: "5 off tickets The Southbank Centre's Literature & Spoken Word programme spotlights the very best established and emerging literary talent. On the 75th anniversary of the pioneering Festival of Britain, the Southbank Centre continues…...
Enjoy arts and culture trips by train, with "100 off Bywa. ..
13+ hour, 55+ min ago (105+ words) Friday 24 April 2026 Byway is the first 100% flight free holiday company, crafting bespoke holidays by land and sea. Stitched together with heritage railways, sunset sailings and scenic bus journeys, all itineraries include transport and accommodation, neatly packaged up with free disruption…...
Mary Beard wants us to rethink the Classics
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (78+ words) Thursday 23 April 2026 "Mary Beard, aged 17, on an archaeological dig Talking Classics is published by Profile Books (16. 99). Order a copy at'The Observer Shop for 14. 44. Delivery charges may apply. What to read this week, from Barbara Pym to Mary Beard Ashley Hickson-Lovence:…...
Who really killed Zac Brettler?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (318+ words) 50% off limited time offer Thursday 9 April 2026 Paperback of the week: Offenses by'Constance Debr" Jay Mc Inerney: "It's just a terrible time to be anywhere in the US' Readers will also wonder what happened to "Brettler's missing shirt. And why he…...
The ROH's Turn of the Screw review - a masterclass in menace
2+ week, 6+ day ago (65+ words) 50% off limited time offer Saturday 4 April 2026 Oliver Mears's Rigoletto. Main image: Peter Willoughby, Kate Royal, Phoenix Matthews and Elgan Ll'r Thomas in The Turn of the Screw The sounds of the Sistine Chapel Ryan Gosling's charm can't save Project Hail…...
Reinier de Graaf's manifesto for building a better future
3+ week, 1+ day ago (255+ words) 50% off limited time offer Thursday 2 April 2026 Yet there is hope. "De Graaf proposes a "reinvention of architecture" "that would require the industry to discard" assumptions "it holds dear and sacred. What to read this week, from the abyss of dreams…...
Stephanie Sy-Quia's tale of religious and romantic devotion
3+ week, 6+ day ago (64+ words) Saturday 28 March 2026 A Private Man by'Stephanie Sy-Quia is published by'Picador (16. 99). Order a copy from The Observer Shop for 15. 29. Delivery charges may'apply What to read to understand memory Abdulrazak Gurnah: "Tanzania is deeply embedded in my imagination" Stephanie Sy-Quia appears at…...
We love: fashion fixes for the week ahead
4+ week, 1+ day ago (81+ words) The Observer Thursday 26 March 2026 Utility is the smart road to trans-seasonal dressing We love: fashion fixes for the week ahead Main character energy You'll have to move fast to secure a piece from Willy Chavarria's highly anticipated collaboration with Zara....
Paperback of the week: You Are the F'hrer's Unrequited Lo. ..
4+ week, 1+ day ago (200+ words) Thursday 26 March 2026 Albert Speer was an architect who became the most favoured of Hitler's courtiers in the 1930s, and the Reich "minister of "armaments and "war "production in the 1940s. He escaped the gallows at Nuremb"erg by portraying himself as a…...
George Sand's life of radical self-invention
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (77+ words) Saturday 21 March 2026 "This was literature as gelignite: writers on life-changing nonfiction by women Len Deighton, novelist and cookery writer Lara Feigel is the author of Custody: The Secret History of Mothers (William Collins) Becoming George: The Invention'of George Sand by'Fiona…...