Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence review – on the side of the ref who broke all the rules
Freestyle poetry is teamed with kick-by-kick match reports in this stirring novel about Uriah Rennie, the Premier League’s first black match official
Mr Darcy’s white shirt from lake scene stars in Jane Austen exhibition
Garment worn by Colin Firth in 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice to go on show at Jane Austen’s House
Like something from a Kubrick film – the hunt for Britain’s best modern buildings
Author Owen Hatherley set out to find fabulous modern buildings all over Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth. What did he learn? That every town has one – even Reading
Homesickness by Colin Barrett; Dance Move by Wendy Erskine – reviews
Colin Barrett deftly captures alarming violence and the richness of family saga, while Wendy Erskine frequently leaves the reader wrongfooted
An evil bear, a tinpot Churchill, a vile virus… My sketch show for our times
The Tories won by a landslide, Brexit got done, Covid loomed… and the Observer cartoonist Chris Riddell picked up his pen. Here he tells of his daily ritual
Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery
The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes
The Guardian view on Middlemarch: a book for grownups
Editorial: George Eliot’s wise, empathetic book speaks to us eloquently of our own times
Immersive show turns Middlemarch into 1980s murder mystery
Coventry audiences will take their own journeys through the production as 150th anniversary celebrated
Books world auction for Ukraine offers more than 350 lots
With bidding still open, fundraiser whose lots include the chance to appear in books by Lenny Henry and Peter James and lunch with Jeremy Bowen has raised £37,000
Long Live My Happy Head review – comic book artist illustrates his own mortality
Scottish artist Gordon Shaw talks cancer and comic books in this tender study of a man facing an uncertain future
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins review – the brutal truth about Britain’s past
In shocking, meticulous detail, an acclaimed American historian uses ‘lost’ records from 37 former colonies to reveal the barbarity of the British empire and the hubris that fuelled it
How Dickens’ Pickwick comic serial brought his fans together
Museum exhibit reveals the huge effect the The Pickwick Papers had on readers
Museum visits do not improve GCSE results, study reveals
Report finds no correlation between better exam grades and exposure to ‘middle-class’ outings
Hoard of the rings: ‘lost’ scripts for BBC Tolkien drama discovered
Original manuscripts show how author rewrote scenes for 1950s adaptation of his Middle-earth epic Lord of the Rings
In Somerset did Kubla Khan: Coleridge manuscript returns to poem’s source
Taunton welcomes handwritten version of work poet said came to him after drug-induced reverie in nearby farmhouse