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By SARA LAWRENCE Published: 04:55 EDT, 9 October 2026 | Updated: 05:02 EDT, 9 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!--  Fabulous (&…

By SALLY MORRIS Published: 05:00 EDT, 9 October 2026 | Updated: 05:04 EDT, 9 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- THE WELL by…

Two weeks into their attempt to row unsupported across the Pacific Ocean in 2025, the Maclean brothers (Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan, in their late 20s and early 30s) realise they have neglected to bring the industrial quantity of Sudocrem on…

By TOM READ WILSON Published: 13:00 EDT, 8 October 2026 | Updated: 13:12 EDT, 8 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- ... are you…

Down Burrow Lane by Michael Morpurgo (Hodder £20, 288pp)   By KATHARINE SPURRIER Published: 06:49 EDT, 5 October 2026 | Updated: 06:49 EDT, 5 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- …

The Man who was Private Widdle by Roger Lewis (riverrun £14.99, 144pp)  By YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM Published: 07:10 EDT, 5 October 2026 | Updated: 07:21 EDT, 5 October 2026 <!-- --> <!--…

Sylvester Stallone lasted only three and a half weeks as a lion cage cleaner. It wasn’t so much that the cleaning itself was difficult but that the powerful ammoniac stench of the lions’ urine made his eyes stream. Added to that, the…

By ANTHONY CUMMINS Published: 05:00 EDT, 2 October 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 2 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- PARTITA by…

Journey Across Japan by Chris Broad (Bantam £22, 465pp)   By CONSTANCE CRAIG SMITH Published: 13:00 EDT, 1 October 2026 | Updated: 13:00 EDT, 1 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- …

 A few days before the American Army liberated Colditz in April 1945, the small group of high-born prisoners-of-war known as the Prominente were whisked away in middle of the night to another prison camp in the foothills of the Alps near…