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I have found the perfect book group – we discuss problematic text messages

My friends and I were keen to meet regularly, but couldn’t agree on what to read. Then we found an excellent solution, writes Zoe Williams

‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?

Author Beth Pinsker discusses the documents that matter more than a will – and why so few of us have them

‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?

If you’re in a rut, kids can show you the way out. That’s the latest message from the author of the bestselling Steal Like an Artist. I asked him to help me rediscover my playful, creative side …

Search for lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s book

Mama G wants to dedicate her book, The Proudest Bird in the World, to pair after chance Blackpool Pride encounter

Tell us: what have you been reading this month?

We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month

I was punched on the school bus. Being violently bullied changed me – and affected one of the biggest decisions of my life

I’ve worked hard to leave the intimidation I experienced in the past. But when I met the man I wanted to marry, those childhood memories took me by surprise

‘My body is fat, not wrong’: how body neutrality – not positivity – helped me shed a lifetime of shame

If I’d been taught this way of thinking as a child, I can’t begin to imagine how much easier things could have been

‘Take a deep breath and pick up the phone’: a former union organizer on how to negotiate your debts down

Carrie Joy Grimes’ new book The Joy of Money offers tip and tools for middle-class Americans seeking out stability and security

How to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’

Lindsay C Gibson’s book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents was an enormous unexpected hit in the pandemic. Now the psychologist is back with her advice for raising happy, healthy children

Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty

Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with it

Rivals actor Katherine Parkinson lauds series for depicting women’s view of sex

Bafta winner tells preview screening in Bristol there is not enough on television about the female perspective

Menopause is tough. But it’s fantastic being a woman in her 60s

My girlfriends and I have more fun, more adventures, more independence than ever before. And as for the sex …

‘I was mortally offended’: writers on the throwaway comments that changed their lives

Can a sentence affect the course of your life? Five authors reveal the interactions that transformed the way they saw themselves – and the world

Annabel Crabb: ‘I worried that people might think I’m an idiot’

The broadcaster, cookbook writer and political commentator on hoarding, making Kitchen Cabinet and crying in the makeup room at the Logies

‘This is so taboo’: Kimberley Nixon on the hell of perinatal OCD – and how she survived it

After the birth of her son during lockdown, the Welsh actor was flooded by disturbing thoughts she couldn’t shake, a plunge into darkness and isolation. She discusses how it changed her and what helped her recover

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  • Stolen Revolution by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati review – Iran’s recent history explained
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  • The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master
  • Bill Jordan obituary
  • I have found the perfect book group – we discuss problematic text messages
  • ‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?
  • ‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?
  • Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun
  • A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?
  • Ruth Artmonsky obituary
  • ‘Far right groups prey on it’: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness
  • Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?
  • Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war
  • Search for lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s book
  • Readers’ top 100 novels of all time
  • Move over Middlemarch! Readers’ top 100 novels
  • The Guardian view on the UK’s first centre for illustration: visual literacy, and the sheer joy of images, matter
  • Best Australian books out in June: a buzzy novel, gripping nonfiction and an extremely unusual debut
  • Unseen Edith Wharton short story is published more than a century later
  • The best recent poetry – review roundup
  • Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex
  • The Children by Melissa Albert review – intriguing fairytale of creativity’s dangers
  • The Ruiners by Ellena Savage review – a playful and subversive take on Great Expectations
  • Dina Nayeri: Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding
  • I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan audiobook review – a grim life in China’s gig economy
  • Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis and acclaimed French-Iranian artist, dies aged 56
  • Dominion by Addie E Citchens review – Women’s prize-shortlisted portrait of patriarchy’s horrors
  • Belle Burden’s divorce memoir was headed for a Salt Path-style scandal – but people are still on her side
  • ‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?
  • The Traveller by Andrea Wulf review – an 18th century explorer far ahead of his time

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