
Lucy Mangan
Columnist and TV Critic at The Guardian
Guardian TV critic, author. Bookworm; a Memoir of Childhood Reading, is out in paperback now. New book (and first novel) Are We Having Fun Yet? out Oct 14
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msn.com | Lucy Mangan
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theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
Hello and welcome to the latest addition to Adam Curtis’s growing compendium of documentaries I have unofficially entitled How Did Things Get So Shit? Let Me Explain in a Weirdly Uplifting Manner. Previous volumes include The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, HyperNormalisation, Can’t Get You Out of My Head and Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone.
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theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
Well, what do you think a 90-minute documentary entitled Confessions of a Parent Killer is going to be about? That’s right, well done! It’s the story of a murder by an (adult) child of her parents. Virginia – Ginny – McCullough killed her mother, Lois, and father, John, and confessed immediately to police when they raided her home in 2023 that she had done so four years previously. The twist was that she had been living with their bodies ever since.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Lucy Mangan
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
About 15 years ago I was at a do for a children’s literacy charity and the guest speaker was Jamie Oliver. He got up and spoke easily, wittily and movingly – without notes – about his experiences as a child at school with undiagnosed dyslexia that meant he only read a book for the first time at the age of 33.
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Come and talk all things Bookish and bookish with me in Derby on Sunday! 😍📚📚❤️📚 https://t.co/WZQtidngl2

Young woman on the my train just asked for the title of this book I was reading. Showed her and recommended three more and she started backing away in polite fear. Sorry, young woman on the train 🥺 https://t.co/uwPvRFs5r8

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