Seafood sinigang. Food styling: Henrietta Clancy. Photograph: Romas Foord/The ObserverSeafood sinigang. Food styling: Henrietta Clancy. Photograph: Romas Foord/The ObserverThe ObserverFoodChicken in coconut vinegar, vegetables with fermented shrimp, and cassava cheesecake – the Sarap chef’s homage to his mother’s cooking I was born in Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines, but I grew up in Sydney. We used to return quite often when I was younger, but there was a lot of instability during the late 1990s and early 00s, so we stopped and I never really went back.

FictionReviewBuried secrets are uncovered and the dead rise in Kidd’s fantastical literary thriller set on the west coast of IrelandDiabolical deeds, ferociously kept secrets, black humour and magical realism abound in Jess Kidd’s richly textured, thronging debut. At its dark heart is the tale of a long-ago murder in a remote coastal village in the west of Ireland, and the young man who, nearly 30 years later, seeks to avenge it.

NFL This article is more than 2 years oldPeyton Manning enters Pro Football Hall of Fame alongside Johnson and FloresThis article is more than 2 years oldColts and Broncos quarterback is NFL’s only five-time MVPNew members from 2020 enter after Covid-19 delayPeyton Manning, the only five-time NFL MVP and a two-time Super Bowl winner who left the game five years ago with a slew of passing records, was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Sunday night with other members of the class of 2021.

BooksObituaryRosalind HicksThe daughter of Agatha Christie, who fiercely guarded her mother's estate, works and reputationFrom her mother, Agatha Christie, Rosalind Hicks, who has died aged 85, inherited fortitude, stamina and a desire for privacy. Notice in the newspapers was something to be endured. Her mother's further legacy was a literary estate - the many detective novels, published in dozens of languages, plays, films, two volumes of autobiography - that provided her daughter with a comfortable living and the role, often burdensome, of hawk-eyed protector of the integrity of every manifestation of the published work.

FictionReviewA young woman’s journey to bring her brother back from the States takes on mythological proportions in this rich, strange novelFrom its opening pages, when gaping asphalt swallows a man, a car, a dog and “even the screams of passersby”, this marvellously rich, slim novel is working on many levels. The lethal sinkhole is located in a generic silver-mining town in Mexico, “riddled with bullet holes and tunnels bored from five centuries of voracious silver lust”.