Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...

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Whatever you want to call it, Hereditary is an exceptional debut and a crushingly oppressive work about a cursed family laden with grief. A shock scare about 20 minutes in will leave you reeling ...

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But not for much longer. British MPs have voted to approve in principle a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years.

Whether you’re reading to your child, or they’re learning to read by themselves, little ones will want to return to these picture books for kids again and again. Full of loveable characters, playful ...

But not for much longer. British lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve in principle a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years.

LONDON — Britain is finally moving into the … 20th century? Hereditary peers, who sit in the country’s House of Lords by birthright, soon face abolition under a plan being pushed by the new Labour ...

On Tuesday, a draft law that would remove hereditary peers from the Lords passed to its next stage. There are 92 seats for hereditary peers who have inherited their titles from their families ...

For that reason alone, I’d keep them. There was an interesting debate today on BBC Radio 4 on the issue between an hereditary earl and Lord (Charlie) Falconer, Tony Blair’s former Lord Chancellor.