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Oasis, Charli XCX, Tom Cruise and a giant spider: 2025's cultural highlights

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Oasis are back after their 15-year huff, ready to go Supersonic all over again.

Kendrick Lamar will be headlining the Super Bowl half -time show in February .

Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey will sashay into Wembley and Anfield this summer .

New music on the way from indie hero Sam Fender and brooding R&B icon The Weeknd.

New Year's Day sees Netflix releasing Missing You, about a police officer who finds her former fiance on a dating app.

The Traitors , The White Lotus and The Night Manager will return for a third series in February .

There will be two TV dramas based on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 .

It's been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave us a long-form novel.

The Persians (Fourth Estate) is a sweeping and irreverent tale following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family.

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah ( Bloomsbury , 18 March ) is the highly anticipated first novel since the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 .

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60

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50

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47

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formal

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English

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47

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short-lived

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