Douglas Kennedy, Janice Hadlow and An Yu: This week’s best new fiction 

From Douglas Kennedy’s ‘atmospheric’ Isabelle In The Afternoon to The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow and An Yu’s debut, this week’s new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Anthony Gardner Published: 22:02 GMT, 28 December 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 28 December 2019 Isabelle In The Afternoon Douglas Kennedy  … Read more

Kiley Reid, Isabel Allende and Eoin Colfer: This week’s best new fiction 

From the ‘beautifully observed’ Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid to the latest from Isabel Allende and Eoin Colfer’s adult debut, this week’s new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Anthony Cummins and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 4 January 2020 | Updated: 15:37 GMT, 6 January 2020 Such … Read more

Rebecca Wait, Jeet Thayil and William Gibson: This week’s best new fiction

From Rebecca Wait’s ‘outstanding’ Our Fathers to the evocative Low by Jeet Thayil and Agency by William Gibson, this week’s best new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Anthony Gardner and Jeffrey Burke Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 Our Fathers Rebecca Wait        … Read more

Deepa Anappara, Gill Hornby and Jeanine Cummins: This week’s best new fiction

From Deepa Anappara’s ‘delightfully observed debut’ to Miss Austen by Gill Hornby and Jeanine Cummins’ page-turner, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Cummins Published: 22:02 GMT, 18 January 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 18 January 2020 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara          … Read more

Marian Keyes, Eimear McBride and Philip Hensher: This week’s best new fiction

From a corker by Marian Keyes to Eimear McBride’s Strange Hotel and a ‘quietly brilliant’ new novel from Philip Hensher, this week’s best new fiction By Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Max Davidson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 16:08 GMT, 26 January 2020 Grown Ups … Read more

Hannah Rothschild, A D Miller and Ta-Nehisi Coates: This week’s best new fiction

From Hannah Rothschild’s delightful House Of Trelawney to the latest from A D Miller and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ debut novel, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Jeffrey Burke Published: 22:01 GMT, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 17:44 GMT, 4 February 2020 House Of Trelawney Hannah Rothschild          … Read more

Jenny Offill, Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth: This week’s best new fiction 

From Jenny Offill’s sublime Weather to a powerful new novel from Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth’s Adults, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Catherine Taylor and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2020 | Updated: 11:24 GMT, 9 February 2020 Weather  Jenny Offill          … Read more

From How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to Reasons To Be Cheerful: This week’s top podcasts

From Phoebe Waller-Bridge on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to Ed Miliband’s Reasons To Be Cheerful and Poetry Unbound, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 15 February 2020 How To Fail With Elizabeth Day For one hour each week, the journalist Elizabeth Day … Read more

Anne Enright, Petina Gappah and Rosanna Amaka: This week’s best new fiction

From Anne Enright’s potent Actress to the skilful latest by Petina Gappah and an impressive debut from Rosanna Amaka, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 Actress Anne Enright        … Read more

Debenhams to axe 19 sites ‘within weeks’ as it begins store closures

Debenhams faces a make-or-break year as it begins a massive programme of store closures. Three stores closed last year, 19 shops will shut their doors between January 11 and 25, and a further 28 will follow next year. The list of 19 includes stores in Eastbourne, Guildford, Wolverhampton and Canterbury. It is part of a … Read more