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• Come on in, 
the water's 
FREEZING!

  02-08-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Meet the extraordinary people taking cold water swimming to the next level
  
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• The resilient and clever woman who should have been the first Queen of England

  02-08-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  400 years before Queen Mary I took the throne, the Empress Matilda came within a hairs breadth of being anointed the first reigning Queen of England
  
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• Mocked by the chattering classes, forgotten by Westminster...why don't we care about the white working class?

  02-08-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  The story of Billy, his mother and a violent stepfather provides a tragic but all too common picture of a neglected generation
  
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• Toxic secrets and dangerous friends in this month's psychos: Heartbreaker by Jude O'Reilly, One Dark Summer by Sarah  Hornsley, The Pool Party by Rebecca Bainbridge

  31-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Christena reviews
  
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• Tintagel? It was a trading hub, not the seat of King Arthur

  31-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Ken Dark unpicks the mythology surrounding King Arthur all while shing a light on the British Dark Ages
  
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• Lethal risks and monster debts: this month's fantasy novels: The Deep And The Drowned by Ian Green, The Infinite State by Richard Swan, A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett

  31-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Jamie Buxton reviews
  
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• Books that linger with you...this month's retro reads: A TIME TO BE BORN by Dawn Powell, THE SPRING HOUSE by Cynthia Asquith, GAINING GROUND by Joan Barfoot

  31-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Sally reviews
  
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• Booker winners and bestsellers in this week's literary fiction: THE FIRST HOUSE by Avni Doshi, EXHIBITION by Alex Hyde, I MADE YOU UP INSIDE MY HEAD by Marta Pérez-Carbonell

  31-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Anthony reviews
  
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• Top psychologist explains why couples fight over the smallest things - and what can really be done about it

  30-07-2026 18:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Why can we have ferocious arguments about seemingly insignificant things like who takes the bins out? Kim Polinder reveals the secret psychology behind why we fight.
  
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• Why we SHOULD be sweating the small stuff

  28-07-2026 13:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Focusing on the little things might sprinkle some enchantment into your everyday
  
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• How to learn to love your tapeworm

  26-07-2026 11:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Take a dive into the weird and wonderful world of parasites and how they've shaped the world we live in
  
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• Magnificent moustachioed Brits who fought the Romans (and each other) to the death

  26-07-2026 11:03 via dailymail.com
  
  The Romans conquest of Britain was a centuries long bloodbath, revealed in new book by Ferdinand Addis
  
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• Keeping an Eye on a magnetic love story: Main Characters by Bobby Palmer, Lonely Mouth by Jacqueline Maley, Mr Sidhu's Post Office by Amman Brar

  24-07-2026 11:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Sara Lawrence reviews
  
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• 'Superbly tortuous' thrillers out this month: Icarus 17 by Charles Cumming, Hide and Seek by Chris Carter, One of Us is Guilty by Steve Cavanagh

  24-07-2026 11:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Geoffrey Wansell reviews
  
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• Colson Whitehead returns in this week's literary fiction: Ash by Louise Wallace, Family Friends by Chloe Ashby, Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

  24-07-2026 11:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Claire Allfree reviews
  
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• How plants and poo lead to big pharma

  24-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  The miracle of modern medicine took many thousands of years of trial and error...
  
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• Funny and provocative short stories out this month: Wasteland Girls by Anna Bailey, It Will Come Back To You by Sigrid Nunez, A History Of Heartache by Patrick Strickland

  24-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Eithne Farry reviews
  
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• Beth O'Brien answers our burning questions...

  24-07-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Beth O'Brien won the Carnegie Medal for Writing 2026
  
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• Seventeenth century witch-hunts were the perfect excuse for sick and twisted men to abuse - and kill - independent women

  23-07-2026 18:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Pretty, single, female...you're a witch!
  
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• The key to Trump's election win? 57,000 exclamation marks

  19-07-2026 10:45 via dailymail.com
  
  James Carey-Douglas discovers the power of punctuation in Florence Hazrat's enthusiastic new book.
  
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• How Mark Antony actually saved Rome… (he married Cleopatra for her money)

  19-07-2026 10:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Kate Williams debunks all of the stories you have heard about our greatest queens and repositions them in all of their historical glory.
  
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• The Mad Men of Science: One kept a cow in his flat, another climbed trees to avoid colleagues, a third's party trick was swallowing knives... but these are the men who understand the universe best

  19-07-2026 10:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Jonathan Black explores the exhilarating and mind-bending relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science.
  
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• David Eggers returns with a novel two decades in the making: CONTRAPPOSTO by Dave Eggers, LONG WAVE by Daisy Johnson, THE FIRST HOUSE by Avni Doshi

  17-07-2026 15:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Stephanie Cross reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.
  
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• Refresh yourself with the Golden Age of Crime fiction this month: Death of an Editor by Vernon Loder, Raffles, Gentleman Thief by E. W. Hornung, Anything for a Quiet Life by Michael Gilbert

  17-07-2026 14:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Barry Turner reviews the best Classic crime novels out now.
  
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• The best books to keep kids of all ages entertained this summer holiday: LEAVING THE HOUSE by Sally Nicholls Illustrated by Ellie Snowdon, A DAY OFF SCHOOL by Oliver Jeffers Illustrated by Kevin Waldron, HOW TO STEAL THE FUTURE by Christopher Edge

  17-07-2026 14:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Sally Morris reviews the best Children's Books out now.
  
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• Beautifully written and thought-provoking Contemporary novels to read now: Kitten by Stacey Yu, The Project by Annie Lord, Born Of Guilt by Joanna Elmy

  17-07-2026 10:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Sara Lawrence reviews the best contemporary novels out now.
  
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• Magic, Murder and Mystery: The Ambassadors for the National Year of Reading 2026, including Ben Miller, Dan Jones, Adam Kay, Sir Ian Rankin and Fern Britton reveal the books that inspired them

  16-07-2026 19:00 via dailymail.com
  
  The Ambassadors for the National Year of Reading 2026 pick the books and mediums of enjoying them that made them fall in love with reading... that you will love too!
  
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• A curmudgeon in a cassock: the weird, wonderful and hilarious world of David Sedaris

  12-07-2026 11:06 via dailymail.com
  
  From the a trip to the Vatican to a shotgun wedding, no one can make a reader laugh out loud quite as hard as David Sedaris
  
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• Will AI turn us all into paperclips?

  12-07-2026 11:05 via dailymail.com
  
  ...while the answer is probably no the philosopher Nick Bostrom is asking the questions of what our future with AI could possibly look like.
  
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• What it's really like for people who's lives are torn apart by their loved ones going missing

  12-07-2026 11:05 via dailymail.com
  
  A person is reported missing in the UK every 90 seconds, on average. Most of them return, but 13,000 have not.
  
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