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How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times
Analysis

How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside
Environment

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside

Rediscovering my love of dancing changed my life… and inspired my book 
Expressive writing

Rediscovering my love of dancing changed my life… and inspired my book 

How writing reconnected me with my Bedouin past
Minority writing

How writing reconnected me with my Bedouin past

The question I’d most like to ask Kim Yo-Jong, North Korea’s doyenne of despotism
North Korea

The question I’d most like to ask Kim Yo-Jong, North Korea’s doyenne of despotism

Self-portraits: The surprising history of the selfie
Art history

Self-portraits: The surprising history of the selfie

The 18th-century astronomer who sparked a modern love story
behind the book

The 18th-century astronomer who sparked a modern love story

Marriage: A feminist history
LGBT+

Marriage: A feminist history

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world
History

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world

Rescuing doomed orchids turned me into an outlaw
Nature

Rescuing doomed orchids turned me into an outlaw

How the ‘Other Renaissance’ shaped the modern world
History

How the ‘Other Renaissance’ shaped the modern world

Charlene White: How judging the British Book Awards rekindled my passion for reading
British Book Awards

Charlene White: How judging the British Book Awards rekindled my passion for reading

From feral to floof ball: The incredible evolution of cats
Evolution

From feral to floof ball: The incredible evolution of cats

Generations on, making peace with the trauma of my past
Generational trauma

Generations on, making peace with the trauma of my past

Pitch perfect? ChatGPT does book blurbs
ChatGPT

Pitch perfect? ChatGPT does book blurbs

I couldn’t find a book with a Black British romantic heroine, so I wrote one
Black British fiction

I couldn’t find a book with a Black British romantic heroine, so I wrote one

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Forgotten African heroes of the Second World War
first person

Forgotten African heroes of the Second World War

Mammals have a surprising secret history – forget everything you thought you knew
natural history

Mammals have a surprising secret history – forget everything you thought you knew

Antisemitism is something you get used to – but we shouldn’t have to
discrimination

Antisemitism is something you get used to – but we shouldn’t have to

Doug Johnstone: How a stroke led to my first contact with aliens
sci-fi

Doug Johnstone: How a stroke led to my first contact with aliens