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Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury; The Locust and the Bee by Geoff Mulgan - review
Lord Sainsbury and Geoff Mulgan come up with overlapping proposals for the future of capitalism Neoliberalism has been found wanting - at least by the 99% and a growing army of economists - so what is to take its place? Marx says something other than cap
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones - review
On our journey to understanding the origins of life and the cosmos, there is no wittier guide than geneticist Steve Jones The Good Book is many things to different people. For believers, it is a guide to life whose every word was handed down directly fro
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan - review
Michael Pollan's hymn to the joys of home cooking is admirable if slightly overdone Why cook? Why bloody bother? Anybody who already does so, which is to say who makes food from scratch - who roasts and braises, who blitzes up soups, reduces down sauces,
Sun Catcher by Sheila Rance - review
This is a crisply written fantasy debut that, for once, justifies the hype. I have a feeling it might do very well These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes
Amos Oz by Nicola Jennings
Author Nicola Jennings
How to Read a Graveyard by Peter Stanford - review
They set us off 'remembering, reflecting and puzzling'. But what do cemeteries reveal about our understanding of death? This book was born when Peter Stanford's children made him get a dog. He had been, he says, "as much a cemetery avoider as the next pe
Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, trans Stewart Spencer - review
This is a masterly and indeed monumental biography, some 800 pages long, a memorable portrait of the age as well as the composer "My life has all been paper," said Gustav Mahler before his death in 1911, aged just 51. As a student in Vienna he was "f
Homecoming by Susie Steiner - review
An everyday story of hard-pressed hill farmers is all about keeping calm and carrying on We have Susie Steiner to thank, in part, for the "Keep Calm and Carry On" phenomenon . It was her praise of the wartime public information poster in a Guardian colu
The beat goes onstage: Some Like It Hip Hop - in pictures
Tristram Kenton goes behind the scenes to photograph ZooNation's hit show from studio rehearsals to live performance Tristram Kenton