Books
Roddy Doyle: ‘We’re opening a door into the minds of people who ordinarily aren’t in bookshops’
Roddy Doyle: ‘We’re opening a door into the minds of people who ordinarily aren’t in bookshops’
Roddy Doyle explains why the Booker Prize Foundation is joining forces with Big Issue to give a free short story collection to every reader
Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: ‘Reading is the world’
Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: ‘Reading is the world’
A free book for every reader! Get your free Quick Reads short story collection here
A free book for every reader! Get your free Quick Reads short story collection here
Top Stories
Roger McGough: ‘Poetry is within all of us’
Roger McGough: ‘Poetry is within all of us’
The men who invented the concept of race
The men who invented the concept of race
Reviews
The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan review: a story that aims for the heart and head
The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan review: a story that aims for the heart and head
The Comfort of Distant Stars by IO Echeruo book review: An unusual coming-of-age story
The Comfort of Distant Stars by IO Echeruo book review: An unusual coming-of-age story
The Delusions by Jenny Fagan book review: speaking truth to power with wit and fire
The Delusions by Jenny Fagan book review: speaking truth to power with wit and fire
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse book review: the quiet dissent of a city unravelling
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse book review: the quiet dissent of a city unravelling
Top 5 books
Top 5 books about lying, chosen by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, poet and author
Top 5 books about lying, chosen by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, poet and author
Top 5 books on the London Underground, chosen by Rishi Dastidar
Top 5 books on the London Underground, chosen by Rishi Dastidar
Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey
Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey
Top 5 romantasy reads, chosen by author Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Top 5 romantasy reads, chosen by author Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Author essays
How to embrace your edginess and learn to be exhilarated by the unknown
How to embrace your edginess and learn to be exhilarated by the unknown
Everything happens in the margins, whether in evolution, religion, literature, philosophy, cookery, painting or anything else
I’m a probation officer. It’s a frightening, upsetting, but also moving and hopeful world
I’m a probation officer. It’s a frightening, upsetting, but also moving and hopeful world
The curious story of our public statues and why they end up worshipped, loved, assaulted or ignored
