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Jessie Thompson

Jessie Thompson

Arts Editor at The Independent

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  • English
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  • Books
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Wrexham's Humphrey Ker: 'People accuse us of destroying football' - The Independent

At Wrexham AFC, British writer and actor Humphrey Ker has become the affable man on the ground for Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Ahead of the third series of Disney+ show ‘Welcome to Wrexham’, he tells Jessie Thompson that his future with the football project is uncertain
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The new voices and hidden gems of Hay Festival 2024

Hear from up-and-coming stars of the literary world before they rocket up the bestseller lists, and make sure you don’t miss some of the eclectic treats on Hay Festival’s vast programme, writes Jessie Thompson
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Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year's highlights - The Indepe...

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights
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Viagra gets better funding than women’s health, says Laura Bates

Speaking at Hay Festival, the Everyday Sexism founder said that postnatal care in Britain is ‘absolutely dire’
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How Harry can repair his relationship with King Charles, royal insi...

The King finds his rift with his youngest son ‘unsettling’, royal biographer Robert Hardman told Hay Festival audiences
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Six Lives shows that Henry VIII’s wives lost the battle for a legac...

The National Gallery’s summer blockbuster-in-waiting has the enticing premise of bringing Henry VIII’s six wives out of his shadow – but 500 years of erasure is a difficult thing to overcome in one exhibition
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The new novel describing the unique hell of long Covid

After writing a bestselling mystery novel, Kate Weinberg found herself in a plotless place with no neat, obvious ending: suffering the torturous, confusing ordeal of long Covid. Now she’s turned the experience into a funny, philosophical novel – one that, as Jessie Thompson knows from experience, perfectly captures the surreal state of invisible illness
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Autumn culture guide 2024: From Sally Rooney’s new novel to Jilly C...

From the novels everyone will be talking about to the starriest West End productions, here’s your guide to the coming season’s cultural highlights, as picked by our writers
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Lee Miller’s unbelievable life: From Hitler’s bathtub to tomato sou...

Photographer Lee Miller, the subject of a major new film starring Kate Winslet, used her camera lens to pioneer a new way of seeing conflict. Later, broken by what she saw during the Second World War, she found respite in a Sussex farmhouse called Farleys, where she would begin her surreal next act and her son Antony Penrose would discover her secrets, writes Jessie Thompson
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A chic, luxury hideaway by the sea: Myconian Villa Collection, Mykonos

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The exhausting pregnancy symptom I wish I’d been warned about

Heartburn, insomnia, unsolicited advice from strangers about your unborn child: pregnancy is a rollercoaster ride. But no one told Jessie Thompson about the real struggle: what to wear