A U.K. court has awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) more than £700 million ($900m) in a fraud dispute with the estate of late tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch.

The decision to deploy him shadowing Angela Rayner gives the Tories another high-profile communicator, in return for effectively making him Kemi Badenoch 's deputy.

Enjoy some armchair travel with this week’s books, which traverse from South Korea to Lahore and the Hunter Valley in fiction ...