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    How to write sex scenes — without making people cringe
    How to write sex scenes — without making people cringe

    Monica Heisey and I are in a wine bar discussing whether novelists can really make up sex they’ve never had. Specifically, threesomes. It’s the kind of east...

    Sex & Relationships
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    REVIEW | EDUCATION
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    REVIEW | EDUCATION
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    REVIEW
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    REVIEW | SOCIETY
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    REVIEW
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    REVIEW | SOCIETY
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    How to write sex scenes — without making people cringe
    How to write sex scenes — without making people cringe

    Monica Heisey and I are in a wine bar discussing whether novelists can really make up sex they’ve never had. Specifically, threesomes. It’s the kind of east...

    Sex & Relationships
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    REVIEW | EDUCATION
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    REVIEW
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    REVIEW | SOCIETY
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    REVIEW
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    REVIEW
    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    REVIEW | SOCIETY
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    REVIEW | SOCIETY
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    Bridget Jones tries tantric sex
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
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    No Rooney or Tóibín — this year’s Booker prize longlist is all about the Americans
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    Roger McGough: ‘Poetry was never going to be a career. It was just for girlfriends’
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    The brutal art of the literary hit job, from the Beckhams to Mother Teresa
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    For 20 years, I gave men orgasms for money
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    Fiction reviews

    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
    Discover the 96-year-old novelist who escaped on the Kindertransport
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    New popular fiction for August — Bridezilla and the wedding crasher
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    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
    REVIEW | FICTION
    Spain, sex and lots of sheep: a brat summer novel
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    The suburban family saga beloved by Reese Witherspoon
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    REVIEW | FICTION
    The suburban family saga beloved by Reese Witherspoon

    Non-fiction reviews

    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    REVIEW | EDUCATION
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
    REVIEW | EDUCATION
    Should we scrap school exams? No, says Michael Gove
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    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
    CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK
    Meet Hardit Singh Malik, a forgotten First World War flying ace
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    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
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    Musk, Trump and the rise of the risk-takers
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa
    REVIEW | MEMOIR
    ‘Gag me with a spoon’: my life on Planet Zappa

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