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By WENDY HOLDEN Published: 05:01 EDT, 8 May 2026 | Updated: 05:40 EDT, 8 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- THE LOWE JOB by Grace…

 At a Buckingham Palace event in 1999, Jan Morris asked the late Queen if she remembered hearing, on the eve of her coronation, that Everest had been climbed.‘Yes, of course I remember’, replied Her Majesty. ‘I was the person’, said…

I was an unmarried girl / I’d just turned 27 / When they sent me to the sisters / For the way men looked at me / Branded as a jezebel / I knew I was not bound for Heaven / I’d be cast in shame / Into the Magdalene laundries.That’s the…

 Famous Matt Thorne White Rabbit £23, 368ppBy ROGER LEWIS Published: 05:00 EDT, 3 May 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 3 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- …

 Where The Earth Meets The Sky Louise K. Blight The Westbourne Press £20, 304ppBy KATHARINE SPURRIER Published: 05:00 EDT, 3 May 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 3 May 2026 <!-- --> <!--…

In the early hours of November 29, 2019, Zac Brettler, a public schoolboy from north London, fell mysteriously to his death from the fifth-floor balcony of a luxury apartment block on the Thames.The coroner recorded an open verdict, and…

 Rogues, Widows and Orphans by Rebecca Lee (Profile Books £20, 304pp)By MARK MASON Published: 05:00 EDT, 1 May 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 1 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- -->…

By CHRISTENA APPLEYARD Published: 08:37 EDT, 1 May 2026 | Updated: 08:37 EDT, 1 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- Boring Asian Female…

By JAMIE BUXTON Published: 08:45 EDT, 1 May 2026 | Updated: 10:02 EDT, 1 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- Seek the Traitor's Son…

By SALLY MORRIS Published: 08:32 EDT, 1 May 2026 | Updated: 10:56 EDT, 1 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- A WORKING MOTHER by Agnes…