The big idea: what would culture look like without nightlife? theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Brian Butterfield: ‘Selling candy to babies is harder than it looks ... they don’t carry money’ theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

Should I use an acid-based exfoliant – or a simple face scrub? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

‘Slow travel at its most joyous’: our three-week road trip to Croatia theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

‘The song I wish I’d written? Wonderwall’: Gabrielle’s honest playlist theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

The House of Lords and tabs open on my laptop: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/p…

She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on? theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

This is how we do it: ‘Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back: ‘We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

40 years of comedy classic Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: ‘The producers thought it was too crude, too manly’ theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

‘A sense of wonder enveloped my mother and me’: Mishal Husain on her eye-opening journey through Uzbekistan in search of an ancestor theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

My four-day rail and ferry adventure from the UK to Albania theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

‘My favourite stories are love stories’: Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’: Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushie, was stabbed theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Michelle Collins: ‘When I was 45, I was told I was too old to work in Hollywood’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Safe haven or symbol of injustice? What our gardens tell us about the world we live in theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Tom Gauld on the two authors illusion – cartoon theguardian.com/books/picture/…

England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – battle lines drawn theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Meet regularly, invest time – and don’t hold grudges: 10 ways to revitalise flagging friendships theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…