1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (558+ words) Times LIVE A compelling and very plausible narrative The Woman and Her Stars Once again, following other novels such as The Woman at the Wheel and The Invincible Miss Cust, Penny Haw has taken a female figure marginalised by history…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (577+ words) It was a rainy Wednesday. The shop was busy when Ms. Mumbles answered the phone. I heard her say pardon three or four times. I knew instantly it was Marble Mouth Mike, an 80-year-old retired lawyer. Mike always talked like…...

5+ hour, 42+ min ago  (772+ words) Follow our new Facebook page to get your fix of Mash" SO bored you're always Googling various historical mysteries at work, and leaping immediately to believe the most outlandish theory? You should not do that:" Basically a bad man murdered…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (753+ words) A new book reports growing interest in bespoke rituals. But when God's not in the equation, rituals lose their potency....

2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (385+ words) Two rare manuscripts are being displayed in a Kent castle on Tuesday, marking the 490th anniversary of one of the most infamous executions in history. Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was beheaded on 19 May 1536, having been accused of accused of…...

7+ hour, 47+ min ago  (285+ words) With terrible pacing and plot holes abundant All morning, all day, and even all nighting Fiction so dull, readers can't stay awake Non-fiction so bad, their lives they would take Or they would scream, or they would shout To avoid…...

12+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1746+ words) Indian writer Sharon Aruparayil is the Asia winner of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize "Bail is the rule even in UAPA cases: SC says its verdict on Khalid, Imam pleas ignored precedent Beyond elections, a reading list to understand the…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (559+ words) It was discovered in the 19th century(Image: Shutterstock) The mystery of the Mary Celeste may have finally been solved. It is a famous 19th-century "ghost ship" that was discovered inexplicably abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean around 900 miles west of Portugal…...

15+ hour, 4+ min ago  (443+ words) There may have been a lot published about the Murray-Darling Basin Plan over the years, but not much from the perspective of the communities that have been so heavily impacted. That is until now. Caught in the Current is a…...

12+ hour, 59+ min ago  (19+ words) A group of researchers have found a fragment from the Iliad buried with a mummy from Roman-era Egypt...