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What's got my attention this week #104
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What's got my attention this week #104

A bumper round up of links and recs for your watching, reading and listening pleasure

sam baker
Jun 27, 2025
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Helen Mirren on the cover of the latest issue of Grazia. More like this please!

Below the paywall today: Skin hunger, the women of Britpop, narcissistic mothers, why women pay a passion tax, the biggest shock of parenting your parents, a deeply satisfying literary thriller, welcome to my favourite time of the TV-viewing year, the novel writing competition that you’ve been waiting for. And more.

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• “You don’t want to live like a nun.” Helen Mirren #goals.
• If you, like me, are a Notes App devotee, you will lose the next hour to this piece.
• Is minimalist beauty a trend or a warning?

Anita Bhagwandas
incisive as usual.
• Where did the novel reading man go? (Gift link) (If you’re interested, there’s one in my living room…)
• Hear hear for entering our wanting era.
• Moving piece by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on the Israeli bombing of Iran’s Evin prison where she spent five years.

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