‘No One is Talking About This’ - Patricia Lockwood
Written in short paragraphs that could almost be tweets themselves, it begins as very funny satire on our obsession with the internet and social media - before taking a dark turn.
Set in an English abbey in the 12th century, this pitch-perfect novel follows an unwilling nun called Marie de France (a real poet) who ends up as a power-hungry abbess
A Covid-like virus called AG3 turns the world upside-down: once you are infected, there is no chance of survival. Edith, a sculptor, embarks on a risky affair with a Turkish waiter whom she tends to as he fades telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…
‘Great Circle’ - Maggie Shipstead
In a year when travelling abroad was tough, Great Circle flew us to a different world.
The novel tells two intersecting stories - making clever points about how stories are twisted and provides a rollicking plot telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…
Author of the novel “President Zemmour” and editor of Valeurs actuelles magazine, Geoffroy Lejeune, believes Zemmour has a strong chance of beating Macron in the upcoming election
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has issued an update to its guidance on miscarriage which says that certain women can be offered progesterone to help prevent pregnancy loss
💊 Nice said women who have had previously had a miscarriage and have a pregnancy confirmed by scan who are bleeding can be offered 400mg of micronised progesterone twice daily
✍️"I punched the air this morning when I read the news that doctors should stop routinely doling out antidepressants and offer patients therapy, meditation or exercise instead," writes @RachelKellyNet
"Why is this good news for millions of us who, like me, have danced with depression for years?
"Because we are in danger of otherwise medicalising what Sigmund Freud called 'ordinary human unhappiness'"
🇪🇺As countries in the EU - including Germany, the Netherlands and Austria begin to reimpose lockdown restrictions, the UK appears to be coping with the return to relative normality
💉Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, believes this could be due to the fact that so many older people were given the Oxford vaccine in Britain, whereas members of the EU banned the jab for its elderly populations
🛰️US scientists were surprised by the feat, a sign that China’s military programme is far more sophisticated, and possibly progressing at a much faster pace than previously known
🚀Experts are unsure how China managed to overcome the challenges of physics to fire a nuclear-capable missile from a vehicle travelling at hypersonic speed and with enough power to travel around the world
🔴Europe on Sunday night faced an increasingly violent backlash against new Covid restrictions imposed to deal with a record number of new cases on the Continent.
Riot police were forced to use water cannons and tear gas as peaceful demonstrations turned violent in Brussels when tens of thousands of protesters marched through the streets against the measures.
🔴 Police arrested 44 people
Police were forced to use bulldozers to remove blockades on city streets made from wooden pallets and set on fire.
➡️Several of the demonstrators caught up in the clash carried Flemish nationalist flags, while others wore Nazi-era yellow stars