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The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor review – the tragic lives of Richard II and Henry IV

A rich and vivid history of the Plantagenet cousins and rivals for the English throne

‘Richard II tried first being a Good King and then a Bad King without enjoying either very much. Then being told h…

Was a forbidden love with a PRISONER the reason Elizabeth I never married? Historian says queen fell in love with English statesman while in the Tower of London aged 21 and did everything to keep him 'close'

But according to one historian, Elizabeth may have found love after all, having developed one special connection with a stateman while imprisoned in the Tower of London.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – dizzyingly creative Zambian funeral comedy drama

Humour and pathos go hand in hand in Rungano Nyoni’s award-winning second feature

With this follow-up to her Bafta-winning 2017 debut I Am Not a Witch, the Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni cements…

Top English academy trust faces safeguarding review over ‘emotional abuse’ of pupils

Observer investigation into London school has sparked an inquiry into allegations that teachers harmed mental wellbeing of children

A school in one of England’s leading academy trusts is to face an in…

The moment I knew: ‘I’d never seen anyone eat a whole chicken like that. She was also the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen’’

When Sean Fallon met Fiona while teaching in Thailand, he fell fast and hard at a nightclub that served dinner. Then their ‘first date’ lasted six weeks

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What links Montauciel the sheep with a duck and a rooster? The Saturday quiz

From AOC to Unplugged, Ian Botham to the Yeomen Warders, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 What piece of fruit was sold for $5.2m last month?
2 Which marine organism is named from the Greek …

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht review – blackly comic autofiction

A writer takes his elderly mother on a road trip through the Swiss Alps in an attempt to break with his privileged family’s dysfunctional past

Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist who writes in German…

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