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Book your date with spring

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February 20, 2025

Our pick of the perfect books for the new season

- ALEX PEAKE-TOMKINSON

Book your date with spring

Daffodils have started to appear and it feels as though we are finally emerging from what has been a particularly gloomy and chilly winter.

We can't promise you blue skies and cherry blossom from now on in, but below are the new titles currently giving us life, from a landmark record of queer existence to a cautionary novel about the perils of having a cleaner.

There's also a new book from the brilliant Malaysian novelist Tash Aw - the first in a planned quartet - and a new novel from the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah. One of Britain's foremost writers, and a driver of the revival in nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, has a new book out, his first since 2019's spooky Underland. As we emerge from the "indoor months" these are the perfect books to persuade us straight back inside again to the sofa.

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The philosopher who says big tech has got it wrong on superintelligence

Where does science end and philosophy begin?

time to read

2 mins

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The bitter battle over the future of Truman Brewery

A £500m redevelopment plan is pitting Labour's data-centre ambitions against Brick Lane's heritage and a desperate need for housing — it's a political powder keg.

time to read

5 mins

January 15, 2026

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Goldin's family album is as radical as ever

Diaries are irresistible to the nosy, an artist's one even more so. They are portals into another person's life in another time.

time to read

3 mins

January 15, 2026

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Bathroom confidential: inside the calming sanctums of London's top hair and beauty experts

Fancy your own private ritual space at home? Then take a few tips from these masters of elegant self-care.

time to read

6 mins

January 15, 2026

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Revival of an American classic is a luridly weird study in power dynamics

A study of two damaged brothers whose lives are disrupted by an outsider, Lyle Kessler's blend of absurdism and realism could be a Philadelphia-set companion to Pinter's The Caretaker.

time to read

1 mins

January 15, 2026

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Ex-tennis star Andy Murray celebrates at Nobu, shops at Whole Foods and dates at... McDonald's

The Tube has become so much easier for me now people don't look up from their phones

time to read

3 mins

January 15, 2026

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London's hottest postcodes

THE NEIGHBOURHOODS WHERE DEMAND FOR HOMES IS AT FEVER PITCH. BY ANNA WHITE

time to read

3 mins

January 15, 2026

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How to style out your great winter escape

Whether it's swimming, skiing or sandalling, here's every label you need to know for a super-chic holiday wardrobe update

time to read

3 mins

January 15, 2026

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Pilates queen Bryony Deery

The mind-body expert has a morning ritual, but with soundbaths and sleep supplements her evening routine is where it gets serious

time to read

3 mins

January 15, 2026

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My adult gap year changed my life — I fell in love with the whole crazy world again

didn't imagine I'd meet the man I would marry in a queue for the long drop on the side of a mountain in Peru.

time to read

4 mins

January 15, 2026

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