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Richard Osman’s bland Britain

Richard Osman’s bland Britain

How did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?

By Anna Leszkiewicz
Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish

Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish

The Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural addiction…

By Anna Leszkiewicz