Dawn today is a line of apricot beyond the trees. It starts as a smudge behind Credenhill, the silhouettes of pines sketching themselves in. The valley seems sunk in half-light, without birdsong. But ...

Alex Niven is an author based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His latest book is "The North Will Rise Again" ...

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Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, ...

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel - published in English for the first time - shines a light on politics and power in ...