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Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? B...

It’s not easy being a dictator these days.From Tahrir Square to the Kremlin, downtown Caracas to the Forbidden City, we ...

Raghu Karnad’s “Everybody’s Friend” is a poignant pilgrimage to the military grave of a great-uncle, fallen defending th...

Ten years ago, I was commissioned by a famous poet-editor to write a profile of Coetzee for a London review. At the time...

At 5.37 a.m. my alarm goes off for the first time. By 6.09 a.m. I will be waiting on the metro platform. By 6.27 a.m. I ...

Tax has rocketed to the top of the news agenda. When Amazon, Google and Starbucks were pulled up in front of the Public ...

At the swimming pool, Duncan's mother was drying her hair. In the corner of the changing room he saw something he hadn't...

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From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover c...

Christmas should be a joyous occasion filled with peace and love, but the looming prospect of the festive season fills R...

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Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011.We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the ...

From Russia with Love ‘We are here to find a target who will fulfil our requirements. Someone who is admired and whose ...

Moonraker ‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest weapon on e...

Casino Royale ‘Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles’ In Ca...

Knife-edge decisions, adrenalin rushes, extreme weather, bitter rivalries, heart-stopping races – they are all in a day’...

DISCORDIA is a story of courage and collapse in a country and a culture struggling to map out its future. A short ebook ...

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Morris can't get over Mimi. But then he should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now M...

‘Everyone should try childcare with a hangover. Once.’Sean Hyland’s wife has left him in Dublin for the weekend, home al...

In 1989, after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, Fay Weldon...

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'Information wants to be free' says influential technologist Stewart Brand at a 1984 hacker convention. These words beca...

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Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out....