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Why Faith, Hope and Carnage is The Big Issue Book of the Year 2022
Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage is our book of the year
Recommended

Why Faith, Hope and Carnage is The Big Issue Book of the Year 2022

Lucid prose, raw accounts of grief and witty memoirs: The Big Issue critics' books of the year
Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Quiet
Critics' choice

Lucid prose, raw accounts of grief and witty memoirs: The Big Issue critics' books of the year

Best books of 2022: The indie releases you may have missed
Best books of 2022
Indie picks

Best books of 2022: The indie releases you may have missed

Independent bookshop people are the best people
Bookshop
on tour

Independent bookshop people are the best people

Count Binface's guide to 2022: A year of political bin fires
Count Binface
letter from Sigma IX

Count Binface's guide to 2022: A year of political bin fires

The reality is to change things, you need to get involved
Oil rigs
John Bird

The reality is to change things, you need to get involved

This festive season we should let Tom Waits call the tune
Tom Waits
Paul McNamee

This festive season we should let Tom Waits call the tune

The best children's books of 2022... from Oliver Jeffers to Dara McAnulty and more
Saving the Butterfly: one of our picks for the best children’s books of 2022
recommended

The best children's books of 2022... from Oliver Jeffers to Dara McAnulty and more

Affordable housing is in short supply - here's what other countries are doing about it
Affordable student housing in Denmark
Housing

Affordable housing is in short supply - here's what other countries are doing about it

'It’s a happy image': Big Issue Christmas Kids Cover Competition 2022 winner
The Big Issue, featuring artwork by the winner of the annual kids cover competition
Christmas covers

'It’s a happy image': Big Issue Christmas Kids Cover Competition 2022 winner

Greg James on delivering the Radio 1 response to the Queen's death: 'You gotta earn your money on days like that'
Greg James
interview

Greg James on delivering the Radio 1 response to the Queen's death: 'You gotta earn your money on days like that'

Top 5 books about trauma recovery, chosen by Lech Blaine
Trauma
recommended

Top 5 books about trauma recovery, chosen by Lech Blaine

Sleeping rough, visits from Princess Diana and an amazing love story: The life of a Chelsea Big Issue seller
Big Issue vendor Frank McGucken in a Santa hat
The Big Issue

Sleeping rough, visits from Princess Diana and an amazing love story: The life of a Chelsea Big Issue seller

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence explain the 'gross injustice' of new film The Silent Twins
Tamara Lawrence and Letitia Wright in The Silent Twins
The Silent Twins

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence explain the 'gross injustice' of new film The Silent Twins

Shifty's Boys review: Everyman thriller with a slice of rural noir
Appalachian Mountains
black humour

Shifty's Boys review: Everyman thriller with a slice of rural noir

The Moose Paradox: Toys, trouble and top storytelling
The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen
review

The Moose Paradox: Toys, trouble and top storytelling

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Yuval Noah Harari: 'We are living inside the dreams of dead people'
Yuval Noah Harari
Books

Yuval Noah Harari: 'We are living inside the dreams of dead people'

David Aguilar: Forget pity, I needed to change perceptions of disability
David Aguilar
from the author

David Aguilar: Forget pity, I needed to change perceptions of disability

The Snowman and The Snowdog composers return to their iconic soundtrack a decade on
The Snowman and The Snowdog - flanked by composers Andy Burrows and Ilan Eshkeri
Christmas

The Snowman and The Snowdog composers return to their iconic soundtrack a decade on

Let there be Christmas light! How the UK is keeping the magic of the season on the high street
Switching on King’s Lynn’s Christmas lights in 2021
Christmas

Let there be Christmas light! How the UK is keeping the magic of the season on the high street