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Why I used bad guys to spread the message about the climate crisis in my novel
Climate crisis

Why I used bad guys to spread the message about the climate crisis in my novel

Raja Shehadeh: We weren't close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him
Palestine

Raja Shehadeh: We weren't close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition
Books

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition

What it's like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid
LGBTQ+

What it's like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound
Books

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound

Life as a midwife aid worker: 'Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed'
Books

Life as a midwife aid worker: 'Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed'

Why I created a book full of weird and wonderful images I found in online archives
Japanese illustration
Books

Why I created a book full of weird and wonderful images I found in online archives

Being deaf is no tragedy – it's one of my greatest strengths
Books

Being deaf is no tragedy – it's one of my greatest strengths

I was an Old Bailey judge. Here's what really goes on in court
Books

I was an Old Bailey judge. Here's what really goes on in court

How I wrote Tides: A novelist's search for solitude
Books

How I wrote Tides: A novelist's search for solitude

Why Māori women in New Zealand are disproportionately likely to be homeless
Vanda Symon
Books

Why Māori women in New Zealand are disproportionately likely to be homeless

Author Scott Anderson on the last CIA survivor of the Cold War
Books

Author Scott Anderson on the last CIA survivor of the Cold War

How Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, staged his own rehabilitation
Books

How Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, staged his own rehabilitation

What author and neurologist Ian Bone wants people to understand about epilepsy
Books

What author and neurologist Ian Bone wants people to understand about epilepsy

My one-man mission to build a school – and keep a promise
Jordan Wylie

My one-man mission to build a school – and keep a promise

What I learned from being held hostage for 450 days
Edith Blais

What I learned from being held hostage for 450 days

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'I consider myself a foot soldier in the exploration of Mars'
Book review

'I consider myself a foot soldier in the exploration of Mars'

Finding the real Shane MacGowan meant roving down a different road
Books

Finding the real Shane MacGowan meant roving down a different road

Author Fiona Valpy discovers the real Casablanca
The Storyteller of Casablanca by Fiona Valpy is out now (Lake Union Publishing. Illustration: Joseph Joyce
Books

Author Fiona Valpy discovers the real Casablanca

Author Tash Aw: 'So many of us have multiple identities'
Books

Author Tash Aw: 'So many of us have multiple identities'

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