Books
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The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk review – Windrush children who were left behind
On an unnamed Caribbean island in the 1960s, a girl named Wheeler, the youngest of three sisters, is left in…
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Track Record by George the Poet audiobook review – a heartfelt blend of the personal and political
The British-Ugandan writer looks back at his creative journey into a social landscape still defined by colonialism and inequality Fiona…
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The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world
The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of…
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The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around
When is a book not a book? Steven Poole The Guardian When it’s the book of a podcast. David Runciman,…
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Great Britain? by Torsten Bell – why Labour must move fast and fix things
Choose your fighter: mission-driven government or radical incrementalism? Jonathan Portes The Guardian Evangelical academic or nerdy policy wonk? Economist Mariana…
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Inheritance by Harvey Whitehouse review – the power of unity
After the Arab spring uprisings spread to Libya in 2011 and Muammar Gaddafi ordered his troops to fire on protesters,…
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Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – a comprehensive vision of a devastated society
It’s rare but it does happen: a debut novel comes along that’s so obviously impressive, so advanced in the reach…
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Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé review – a historic hero
Like the protagonist of Yorùbá Boy Running, Biyi Bándélé had been running from a young age. Helon Habila The Guardian…
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Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter prize amid prosecution threat over Kashmir comments
The announcement comes two weeks after Indian officials granted permission to prosecute the writer over comments she made 14 years…
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The battle of the Verses
I never cared much for Salman Rushdie’s work. Nicholas Karides * I had tried to read The Satanic Verses not as the…
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‘Extraordinary’ Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children’s writing
Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for children’s books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a…
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The big idea: can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, genetics has become one of the key frameworks for how we…
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Naomi Klein: ‘Nobody’s perfect – but that’s not an excuse for doing nothing
The Doppelganger writer and winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction on the war in Gaza, current credibility of the left…
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VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction
Doppelganger by Guardian US columnist Naomi Klein has become the inaugural winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction, while Brotherless Night by…
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Charity to offer books at food banks across the UK
A new charity which gives away books at food banks has launched on Tuesday, with a view to providing “book…
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Emma Donoghue: ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull blew my tiny mind’
My earliest reading memory Emma Donoghue The Guardian We had a big crack-spined hardback of Hilda Boswell’s illustrated Treasury of…
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