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Authors in the Tent is a professionally filmed series of interviews with established and emerging authors conducted in a tent Ona Russell purchased during the […]

Lost in Time. A.G. Riddle. 2022. 455 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: On the anniversary of his wife’s death, Sam Anderson visited her grave. It was a c […]

The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town In Stories and Photographs. Chana Stiefel. Illustrated by Susan Gal. 2022. 40 pages. [Source: Library]First […]

Could artificial intelligence offer a fairer and more efficient way of policing?San Francisco’s board of supervisors recently voted to let their police deploy r […]

A tribute to the spirit and resilience of Ukrainians who have kept hope, and poetry, alive since the Russian invasion(for the outpouring of poems by many who have […]

A real-life murder reimagined in interwar England, a gripping pair of mysteries set in Australia and the dark pursuit of a missing girl in London are among this […]

  One Body Too Many An insurance salesman arrives with an appointment to sell a $200,000 life insurance policy to reclusive millionaire Cyrus J Rutherford. […]

A reappraisal of colonialism by an Oxford professor strains credulity and ill serves his aim of defending ‘western values’In 1857, in the wake of the Indian mut […]

Author Salman Rushdie among those angry after some passages relating to weight, gender, mental health and race were rewrittenCritics are accusing the British […]

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The British Muslim author thinks no adult should belittle a child’s choice of reading and looks forward to a ‘representative ecology’ in UK children’s publish […]

What is an almost book? It is a book that *almost* works for me, or, a book that I *almost* love, or, even a book I can *almost* recommend. Almost books are […]

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  The Puppet Crown A 1901 Harold McGrath Ruritanian romance, perhaps best remembered for the lost 1915 film that was made based on it. In some 19thcentury […]

The BBC Newsnight reporter’s investigation into the Tavistock’s gender identity clinic for children makes disturbing readingHannah Barnes’s book about the rise […]

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 1999. 435 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he […]

Going Dark. Melissa de la Cruz. 2023. [January] 336 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The plane bucked with unexpected turbulence on its final descent, […]

In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her […]

  The Ghost Of Sierra De Cobre Nelson Orion is an architect with a cool house, who moonlights as a paranormal investigator. He’s asked to look into the strange c […]

What if the first alien intelligences we encountered were already living with us on planet Earth? This near-future novel of ideas wittily explores the nature of […]

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