I fell for pester power and bought my daughter eye creams and moisturisers - now I'm resisting, even if I won't be a popular mum ...

The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature By Barney Horner Ben Pester is one of the four first-time novelists on the ...

The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature By Barney Horner Ben Pester is one of the four first-time novelists on the ...

Representative image A few brands have cracked the oldest trick in parenting by getting kids to actually want the things that are good for them. From vitamins disguised as sweets to apps that make ...

The Expansion Project is Ben Pester’s first novel. There is little about its opening that hints at the weirdness of the imagination which created it, though a reader familiar with Pester’s short ...

Of all the Ancient Crawlers I've cleared in Borderlands 4, the one in Pester's Grotto felt the trickiest. These activities don't grant SDU tokens, but each of these unlock an exclusive cosmetic. Most ...

Git isn’t hard to learn. Moreover, with a Git GUI such as Atlassian’s Sourcetree, and a SaaS code repository such as Bitbucket, mastery of the industry’s most powerful version control tools is within ...

Pester’s first novel follows his standout 2021 short story collection, Am I In the Right Place?, in which a series of oddball scenarios rendered corporate work life dystopianly strange. He follows ...

Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book ...

May 26—Dusty Pester of Miller City was named Coach of the Year in the Putnam County League, while Brendan Barlage earned Player of the Year honors. Both played a major role for the Wildcats during a ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has ...