As Britain’s death toll from Covid-19 passes 100,000, there is one burning question: why did so many have to die? Tom Clark, Gaby Hinsliff and Philip Ball chart the persistent failures—from both the chief scientists and the politicians. Former head of the Supreme Court Brenda Hale takes on the human rights sceptics and Rana Mitter asks whether China's grip on Hong Kong means the end of the historic freedoms in the city.
Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli’s brother was executed for planning a coup against Saddam. Yet the narrative here is driven neither by anger nor partisan hate
A Dublin-based ménage à quatre sits at the heart of this novel. They become entangled in a familiar psycho-sexual web; yet none of what happens in this quietly sensational debut novel follows a format
A brilliant new addition to Irish fiction's history of experimentation, "Solar Bones" tells the story of a lost soul stranded in his kitchen, looking back over his past life
This exciting collection, which takes the reader from English country roads to sweltering Greece and Australia, proves McFarlane has a knack for disconcerting her reader
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