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Echo Valley: a 'twisty modern noir'
The Week Recommends This tense thriller about a mother and daughter is 'American cinema for grown ups'
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Properties of the week: stunning country houses on sale for under £1m
The Week Recommends Featuring homes in Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Cornwall
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Larry Lamb shares his favourite books
The Week Recommends The actor picks works by Neil Sheehan, Annie Proulx and Émile Zola
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Stereophonic: an 'extraordinary, electrifying odyssey'
The Week Recommends David Adjmi's Broadway hit about a 1970s rock band struggling to record their second album comes to the West End
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Shifty: a 'kaleidoscopic' portrait of late 20th-century Britain
The Week Recommends Adam Curtis' 'wickedly funny' documentary charts the country's decline using archive footage
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Lollipop: a single mother trapped in a 'hellish catch-22'
The Week Recommends Daisy May Hudson's moving debut feature is a gut puncher in the Ken Loach tradition
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How the Israel-Iran conflict broke out
The Explainer Israel's strike on Iran's nuclear and missile programmes was years in the planning
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What is the Chagos Island deal?
The Explainer UK agreement to cede archipelago to Mauritius in exchange for leasing Diego Garcia base criticised by UN panel, Tories and Chagossians
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The best true-crime podcasts of 2025: Pipeline to Sea of Lies
The Week Recommends From 'meaty' investigations to 'head-spinning' mysteries, you'll be listening from the edge of your seat
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The seven strangest historical discoveries made in 2025
The Explainer From prehistoric sunscreen to a brain that turned to glass, we've learned some surprising new facts about human history
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Best new biographies and memoirs to read in 2025
The Week Recommends Dive into some of the most compelling life stories – from Cher to Lou Reed
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Britain's grooming gangs scandal, explained
The Explainer Government makes an about-turn on a national inquiry into child sexual abuse carried out by gangs
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Will 2027 be the year of the AI apocalypse?
A 'scary and vivid' new forecast predicts that artificial superintelligence is on the horizon A 'scary and vivid' new forecast predicts that artificial superintelligence is on the horizon
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Britain's cocaine habit: use of the drug is surging in the UK
The Explainer Cocaine's journey to the recreational British user involves an elaborate network of cartels, traffickers and street-level hustlers
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