Ali Smith, Frances Cha, Vaseem Khan and Elin Hilderbrand: This week’s brand new fiction

From Ali Smith’s final seasonal quartet instalment to If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha, a new series by Vaseem Khan and Elin Hilderbrand’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Gwendolyn Smith and Hephzibah Anderson and John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 August … Read more

From Susie Dent’s Something Rhymes With Purple to The Travel Diaries: This week’s top podcasts

From Susie Dent’s Something Rhymes With Purple to The Travel Diaries and Off Menu With Ed Gamble And James Acaster, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 August 2020 Something Rhymes With Purple This show, about the vagaries of English, was crowned best entertainment … Read more

Author explains how he beat anxiety and learned to laugh

I felt the fear, but then I learnt to laugh again: Author who became transfixed by absurd worries such as forgetting to BREATHE reveals how he learned to manage his anxiety disorder by noting down his fears Josh Roberts was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder in 2016, aged 26 British author reflects on learning to manage … Read more