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Is it time to rethink Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights?
Wuthering Heights is not a great love story: it's a dark parable of coercive control based on a real-life case of domestic torment
May 12, 2025
The best recent books on mums and motherhood
Great reads for Mothers Day - the Times2 Top Picks of recent titles on mothers, on being a mum and all it entails
May 10, 2025
Why the handbag is as mighty as the sword
With Moominmama, Tove Jansson created a hero who wields a handbag instead of a sword, says Isabel Joely Black
May 7, 2025
Vatican Spies: the secret machinations of the Holy See
A review of the fascinating 'Vatican Spies' by Yvonnick Denoël which shines a light on the shadow wars and dirty tricks of the papacy in the last century
May 7, 2025
On the strength of the Women’s Prize for fiction
A top 5 Women’s Prize for Fiction winners from the last three decades, ahead of next month's announcement of the 2005 prize
May 6, 2025
New book heralds start of conclave
'Konklavi' by Robert Aloisio to be launched on Wednesday
May 5, 2025
There’s murder ‘Under an August Moon’
Meet Robert Busuttil, author of a Maltese series of crime fiction, to find out more about the writing process, detective Lucio Vella and his latest exploits
May 2, 2025
Books: the thought-provoking Ghost Mountain
On Irish novelist Rónán Hession’s most ambitious work to date, a layered narrative with imperfect protagonists and change at its heart
April 29, 2025
Short fiction: The Grizzleback Gator
Times2 presents the first of a series of light-hearted reads by short prose author Noah Galea
April 27, 2025
Books: the story of the 1975 vulcan bomber crash in Żabbar
As 'Forty-Six Feet Short – The Tragic End of Vulcan Bomber XM645 and the Aftermath' publishes, author David Grech explains more about the crash in Żabbar
April 26, 2025