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Get cosy with these festive reads over the Christmas season

From Victorian mystery tales to wartime dramas to contemporary romance, here are six festive books…

18 best TV characters of 2019: Klaus Hargreeves, Nadia Vulvokov, Jim Hopper and more

2019 has been a year dominated by bleak politics. Thankfully the TV landscape fared much…

Best albums of 2019: Michael Kiwanuka, The Teskey Brothers, Mabel and more

As the year draws to a close, Culturefly’s crack team of music enthusiasts have been…

Theatre Review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Theatre Peckham

An enthusiastic cast produce a fun modern pantomime in the heart of south east London.…

Book Review: An Unlikely Spy by Terry Deary

As another year passes and we head into a new decade, we move further and…

Book Review: The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis

From C. Auguste Dupin and Inspector Bucket to Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Goole, nineteenth and twentieth…

The Party’s Just Beginning Review

She works behind a supermarket cheese counter in Inverness, and they can’t even get her…

Best fiction gifts for book lovers

NEED SOME GIFT INSPIRATION FOR THE BOOK LOVER IN YOUR LIFE? WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED…

The Lumineers at the O2: one big celebration

The Lumineers have earned the vast international following that’s represented at the O2 tonight, and…

Grapevine Gathering Festival Review

Whilst the rain might be pouring in the UK, summer is coming to Australia, and…

Book Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Tehran, 1953, before the coup. Iran is experiencing a brief spell of relative peace, although…

The best non-fiction, poetry and coffee table books for Christmas 2019

FROM POETRY AND POLITICAL SATIRE TO BIOGRAPHIES AND BRAIN TEASING BOOKS, HERE’S OUR PICK OF…