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Anna Burns’s Milkman and the politics of hatred

Her Belfast-set novel upended my understanding of the Catholic Church and its history of prejudice.

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Also featuring Unearthing by Kyo Maclear and Six Stories by Stefan Zweig.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Alona Ferber

Steve Coll’s account of America’s relationship with Saddam Hussein reveals a series of devastating blunders.

By Robert D Kaplan

A landmark new biography portrays the Labour leader as a man with an entirely abnormal drive and a narrow-eyed focus…

By Andrew Marr

How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture.

By Hannah Rose Woods

This intimate memoir explores the contradictions of being a parent, a partner and an artist – singly, and all at…

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Also featuring Spent Light by Lara Pawson and Moral AI And How We Get There.

By Barney Horner, Will Dunn, Michael Prodger and Tom Gatti

Rob Henderson’s memoir Troubled paints a bleak picture of poverty in the US. Are liberal “luxury beliefs” to blame?

By Pippa Bailey