Game of Thrones: episode by episodeGame of ThronesGame of Thrones recap: season five, episode three – High SparrowIt’s a nice day for a Westeros wedding, the new Lord Commander gets an offer, and an alliance is formed Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Game of Thrones airs on HBO in the US on Sundays and on Foxtel in Australia on Mondays. Do not read on unless you have watched season five, episode three, which airs in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Monday at 9pm.

‘If you accept what’s not there, then you see what is there’ … Annette Herfkens in The Hague, Netherlands. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The GuardianAnnette Herfkens was on holiday with her fiance when their plane went down, killing everyone but her. Three decades later, she reflects on how the trauma changed her by Paula CocozzaAnnette Herfkens and her fiance, Willem van der Pas, had been together for 13 years when he booked them on to a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to the Vietnamese coast.

BooksObituaryPat BoothEast End girl made good who embodied the zeitgeist of the late 20th centuryMost people get a single chance at incarnating the zeitgeist, but Pat Booth, who has died of lung cancer aged 66, made a success of multiple of-the-moment employments - model, boutique owner, photographer and bonkbuster novelist. She knew why she was so driven - "a profound fear of poverty is ingrained on my heart and soul". Her childhood in London's East End might have sounded picturesque, but, as she said, the reality was "

Rereading Stephen KingStephen KingRereading Stephen King, chapter 32: InsomniaA spiritual successor to It, and a Dark Tower novel in all but name, this meditation on time, ageing, free will and predestination is one of King’s true masterpieces In the 1990s, 29 novels into his career, King could do whatever he wanted. His most famous books had been turned into films, he’d had more bestsellers than anybody could hope to dream of, and he’d taken a short hiatus in which he overcame his addictions.

Travel writingReviewThe land belongs to us all! A skilful writer and illustrator explores out-of-bounds country estates and identifies his enemies Readers acquainted with modern British nature writing will know their way around The Book of Trespass, an episodic travelogue that weaves history into close observation of the material world. Less familiar is the radicalism that enlivens Nick Hayes’s dispatches. Chapter by chapter, we follow him over walls and through hedges into the private landholdings of England, including Arundel Castle (among the Duke of Norfolk’s residences), Boughton House (the Dukes of Buccleuch), Highclere Castle (the “real” Downton Abbey, owned by the Earl of Carnarvon) – and the Sussex estate of Paul Dacre, former editor of the Daily Mail.