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The song originally appeared on the singer's recent LP, That! Feels Good! Jessie Ware has surprised fans with a new version of her song, “Freak Me Now.” The single, produced by Stuart Price, originally appeared on Ware’s album That! Feels Good! and is a collaboration with electronic pop singer Róisín Murphy. The pair will release a music video for the track, directed by Sophia Muller and Theo James, on Friday. “It is a huge honor to have the queen of disco, Róisín Murphy on ‘Freak…

Jonathan CoeThe Accidental Woman (1987)Often, when I’m making a long car journey, I’ll put in the flash drive that contains my whole music library and listen on shuffle. This library also includes some of my own novels on audiobook, so occasionally a chapter from one of my books will pop up between the Ravel and the Sufjan Stevens. When that happens, I’ll skip forward hastily.The Accidental Woman by Jonathan Coe.But not when it comes to Sophie Ward reading my first published novel, The Accidental Woman. Then, I usually…

Róisín Murphy is sitting in an old-fashioned shabby-chic drinking club in Soho, central London, that she approvingly describes as “very literary”. She is telling me about lockdown in Ibiza, where she lives with her partner and two children. “It was lovely to have the island so clean and quiet, driving along the salt flats, nobody around. Except they sent the Guardia Civil to Ibiza – they really clamped down. You couldn’t walk your dogs, you couldn’t smoke on the street. There were policemen with machine guns. So you were…

Sunday breakfast? I don’t partake in breakfast much. The kids have porridge on a school day, but help themselves to rubbish cereal at the weekend. I play tunes in the background, annoying the kids, because we don’t have the same taste in music.Sundays growing up? I grew up in Arklow in County Wicklow, in a house with no central heating. We’d have two fireplaces going on a Sunday, which made things more homely. I remember watching Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter. I’d be in heaven with a yoghurt and a biscuit and Wonder…