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Grace season 6 ends on show’s biggest cliffhanger yet at Roy’s wedding

Grace season 6 ends on show’s biggest cliffhanger yet at Roy’s wedding

There were moments at which the fourth and final episode of Grace season 6 felt like a series finale, bringing John Simm’s woes and fears to an end. After solving this week’s case, Roy prepared for his wedding day with Cleo, but was granted an early gift from his colleague Nick. Nick showed him that footage had been found from the hospital in Munich the day that Roy’s wife Sandy died. In the footage, a man wearing hospital scrubs was seen roaming the corridors, wearing a mask and cap. In spite of his attempts to remain undetected, one snapshot image identified him as Albazi, the Benchdale gang leader who had been making threats to Roy’s son Bruno, and terrorising Glenn’s family as he got too close to the truth. Nick revealed that the footage had been sent to Munich police, and that, because of this, the prosecution in Albazi’s case felt confident that they would be able to secure a conviction. Upon this news, the whole team celebrated, with Glenn surmising that the entire Benchdale …

Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction: Arundhati Roy’s memoir among six shortlisted books

Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction: Arundhati Roy’s memoir among six shortlisted books

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced, with Arundhati Roy and Ece Temelkuran among the six writers in the running. Founded in 2023 to help redress the historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes, after a study found that only 35.5 per cent of winners across major UK nonfiction awards over the previous decade were women, the award celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction. The 2026 longlist featured 16 authors, which were whittled down to six names for the shortlist announced on Wednesday (25 March). Roy is nominated for her memoir (Mayank Austen Soofi) The most prominent name on the list is former Booker Prize winner Roy, best known for her 1997 novel The God of Small Things. Indian author Roy is nominated for her memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me, branded “funny, wise, candid and …

“Succession”: Dearly beloved, the Roys cordially invite us to a wedding we won’t soon forget

“Succession”: Dearly beloved, the Roys cordially invite us to a wedding we won’t soon forget

Believing we’ll go on forever is one of the cruelest tricks humans play on themselves. Such a mindset seduces us into delaying tough choices, putting off the things we meant to do and say until tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Deceiving ourselves that way is foolish; using that lie to string along our loved ones is pitiless. “Succession,” for its part, has been upfront as to where Logan Roy (Brian Cox) was steering his family’s ship from the first season when the 80-year-old Waystar Royco CEO emerges from suffering a hemorrhagic stroke and trumpets his intent to remain on the throne. Instead of establishing a succession plan, he continued taunting and goading his children into hating each other and despising him. It looked like it would go on that way ad infinitum. But nothing lasts forever. All great series hit a point that firmly establishes the end has begun. Only “Succession” would be gutsy enough to hide that pernicious alarm in cake and champagne. Sunday’s episode, “Connor’s Wedding,” doesn’t show any signs of Logan slowing …