Nicholas Lezard's choiceAutobiography and memoirReviewThis honest, defiant book from the Slits’ guitarist is a lesson in how to look back from middle ageThere’s a moment towards the end of this book when Viv Albertine confronts an audience she feels has not been giving her enough attention or respect. To put this outburst in context: it is 2008, and she has had to relearn the guitar from scratch after decades of not playing. (For readers unfamiliar with Albertine: she was the guitarist and songwriter for a punk band called the Slits, about whom more in a minute.

Country diaryFungiWenlock Edge, Shropshire: The appearance and disappearance of these strange forms gives them an uncanniness that seems to have nothing to do with their ecological function The fairy bonnets have popped up from the turf and the world is reflected in a million raindrops. Suspended on spindly stalks, the pale flesh of their pointy heads has an ethereal glow. These Marasmius fungi grow in troops or circles in grassland as rotters of organic litter, feeders of grass and stages for supernatural dances.

SportblogEngland cricket team This article is more than 1 year oldGilbert Jessop’s record stands test of time but new England likely to surpass featThis article is more than 1 year oldAndy BullFastest Test century by Englishman set 120 years ago but hell for leather cricket by batters suggests it will finally be beaten England were 48 for five when Gilbert Jessop got to the middle, 215 runs behind. The pitch was tricky, soft, and pitted from where they had been playing on it after the rain, and Australia’s spinners, Hugh Trumble and Jack Saunders, had swept through the best of the batting, Archie MacLaren for two, Johnny Tyldesley for a duck, Lionel Palairet for six, three wickets for 10 runs in as many minutes, then Tom Hayward and Len Braund, both caught behind in single figures.

From the Guardian archiveFranceInsurrection in Paris: attempt at a new revolution - archive, 1832On 5 June 1832, anti-monarchist republicans rose up against the King, seizing a central section of Paris and building dozens of barricades. See how the Guardian and the Observer reported events The June Rebellion, also known as the Paris Uprising of 1832, took place between 5-6 June, 1832, when republicans in Paris attempted to reverse the establishment in 1830 of the July Monarchy.

Twatt in Orkney – not to be confused with the one in Shetland. Photograph: Jorge Tutor/AlamyTwatt in Orkney – not to be confused with the one in Shetland. Photograph: Jorge Tutor/AlamyGeographyThe UK is full of extremely rude-sounding towns and villages. But what’s it like to live in them? Some locals can’t wait to change the names, while others embrace the quirk – even selling signpost souvenirs On the road to Twatt, a message arrives from a resident there.