issue 994

How debut author Eowyn Ivey snowballed to international success

Thomas Quinn

Alaskan debut author Eowyn Ivey reveals how one "tingly" moment at work led her to write international bestseller, The Snow Child

To Hell With Family Ties

A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard... Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner... The Kindle recommendation...

Five books every child should read before they’re 12...

"This story of a lonely boy finding friendship over the bounds of time is the ultimate in magical realism"... Children's author Layn Marlow picks five great reads for little ones

John Bird

Was James Oyebola a victim of capital punishment?

John Bird

"The state monopoly on death has been surrendered to the populace"

Service Interrupted

De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present - First Serve... Wzrd - Wzrd... Amadou & Mariam - Folila... Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides... Black Dice - Mr Impossible...

On A Wing And A Prayer

"It's a truly poignant tale" - The Big Issue reviews new online film, The Truth About Stanley... plus... Titanic 3D... Classics Reissued...

Uri Geller: "Science will prove that telepathy exists"

Steven MacKenzie

Spoon-bender Uri Geller discusses cynical Brits, life after death, and why he carries two Blackberrys

Denise Welch: "My illness has dictated the past 20 years"

Jane Graham

Actress and Loose Women presenter Denise Welch, aged 53, on clinical depression, tabloid tales, and the most wonderful moment of her life

John Simpson: "Every day I think of him - and the death I led him to"

The BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson reveals the physical and mental scars from being caught in the line of fire

Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed: What really makes me tick...

Samira Ahmed

"A public clock is like a living machine – somehow tuned into the frequency of the universe, and with formidable power"

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