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Jan 22, 2025 | 
independent.co.uk | Ellie Harrison |Jacob Stolworthy |Adam White |Nicole Vassell |Jessie Thompson |Patrick Smith | +5 more
The countdownA brilliant episode can refine the essence of the best shows into a single, self-contained moment. Here are our favourites from over the decadesFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Ellie Harrison |Katie Rosseinsky |Rod Ardehali |Helen Coffey |Annabel Nugent |Lydia Spencer-Elliott | +1 more
2024 in reviewSome of the best stars to grace our televisions this year, from Katherine Parkinson to Lennie James, single out their favourite shows, films, music and cultural moments of the past 12 monthsFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Ellie Harrison |Katie Rosseinsky |Rod Ardehali |Helen Coffey |Annabel Nugent |Lydia Spencer-Elliott | +1 more
2024 in reviewSome of the best stars to grace our televisions this year, from Katherine Parkinson to Lennie James, single out their favourite shows, films, music and cultural moments of the past 12 monthsIt has been a year of true surprises on the small screen. Danny Dyer astonished us all by serving up one of the most heartwarming love stories of 2024, in Jilly Cooper adaptation Rivals.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Geordie Greig |Jessie Thompson |Katie Rosseinsky |Victoria Richards |Robert McCrum
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Geordie Greig |Jessie Thompson |Katie Rosseinsky |Victoria Richards |Robert McCrum
Books are the best kind of Christmas present, and we don’t want to argue about it. When you give someone you love an unputdownable novel, a juicy biography, a captivating history book or a set of letters or poems, what you are also giving is hours and hours of pleasure. That’s why five of us writers are sharing our top five suggestions for great books to give as gifts this Christmas.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Jessie Thompson
New BBC documentary lays bare the darkness behind the success of groups like Westlife, Five and Take ThatIn Nancy Mitford’s 1949 novel Love in a Cold Climate, narrator Fanny admits that “ever since I could remember, some delicious image had been enshrined in my heart, last thought at night, first thought in the morning”.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jessie Thompson
In Nancy Mitford’s 1949 novel Love in a Cold Climate, narrator Fanny admits that “ever since I could remember, some delicious image had been enshrined in my heart, last thought at night, first thought in the morning”. She makes a list – long, various and ever-changing – comprised of the dashing men who have been the subject of her girlish fantasies, including Lord Byron, Napoleon and “the guard on the 4.45”. And wasn’t it ever thus?
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
nz.news.yahoo.com | Katie Rosseinsky |Jessie Thompson
It’s certainly been a good year so far for book lovers. 2024 has seen the much anticipated return of Sally Rooney, whose fourth novel Intermezzo is arguably her best effort to date, as well as new works from American literary heavyweights such as Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jessie Thompson
Part of the leading hotel portfolio on Mykonos island, this is a chic, stylish hotel for grown-ups who dream of good food, R&R and stunning scenery. Nestled amid the dramatic beauty of the island’s hillsides, Villa Collection sits above Elia Beach, one of the most popular on the island.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jessie Thompson
Rumaan Alam’s debut novel Leave the World Behind, an eerie thriller full of contemporary social and political anxieties, was one of the breakout literary hits of lockdown. A perfect “read in one sitting” book, it told the story of a family who leave the city for a nice quiet break in a rented house outside of the city… until a couple, who say they are the homeowners, turn up on the doorstep in need of shelter.
