
Rachel Cooke
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The breakout star of season four of The Crown on how her mum helped her to get Diana’s voice – and why she wants to get away from doing ‘posh English’
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Biographies of Philip Roth and DH Lawrence, and the curious death of Robert Maxwell
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Loneliness, isolation and grief were common themes in this year’s Cape/Observer award. But the winner made the judges laugh out loud
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A new biography of Vivien Eliot fails to flesh out the woman abandoned by the poet and often regarded as the source of his despair
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Lockdown has closed off too much of the artistic and sporting hinterland that makes our lives worth living
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This richly detailed study of British food and its relation to social class is truly delectable
Observer book of the week Bright Star, Green Light by Jonathan Bate review – the parallel lives of a pair of romantics