‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy | Books

Louise Kennedy’s life has hardly wanted for dramatic events, but the recent past has been spectacularly busy, even by her standards. You wouldn’t know it to look at her, as we chat in... Read more »

Alice Roberts: ‘By the time I’d finished Richard Dawkins I’d left faith behind’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryThe first books I remember were from The Village with Three Corners series Sheila K McCullagh. I loved the – literally – colourful characters, like Johnny Yellow Hat. I... Read more »
When a heart attack left me in a coma, my hallucinations inspired a novel – and a new life | Books

When a heart attack left me in a coma, my hallucinations inspired a novel – and a new life | Books

On the evening of Monday 1 February 2021, during the third Covid lockdown, my wife Alexa and I sat down on the sofa to have sausages and chips in front of the TV. The children... Read more »
UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga | Hay festival

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga | Hay festival

The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party. Asked at... Read more »
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