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Slow Horses is the espionage dark comedy that has viewers hooked

From Mick Herron’s Slow Horses and Ian Rankin’s Rebus to new books from Bret Easton Ellis and Emma Cline, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

There’s never been a better time than now to hop on the 'Slow Horses' bandwagon. In its third season, the Apple TV+ drama is making a strong case for itself as the best, most consistent thriller on the air right now.

English actor has played Sirius Black, Winston Churchill and, now, Jackson Lamb

A splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery, a fortune teller in Georgian high society and Indian mobsters make this year’s list

Photographed wearing a giant poppy (and on a cold weekend in December, long after it is necessary) Sir Keir Starmer writes a piece in a conservative newspaper pitching for Conservative voters and praising Margaret Thatcher. That is the combustible headline elsewhere anyway. The truth — the context — is Thatcher…

Showrunner Will Smith on how he got on board with adaptation, and his reaction to Gary Oldman — and Mick Jagger — joining spy thriller

Here's how you can watch Slow Horses season 3 online, ready for when it starts on Apple TV Plus on Wednesday, November 29.

Writer Mick Herron reveals the makers make sure Gary Oldman is on screen as much as possible as Jackson Lamb

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments