The State of UsWe are living through a time of tremendous upheaval. Society is growing ever more unequal, and elites increasingly detached, with the Honourable Members ensconced in their Upper and Lower Houses. Jon Snow's own wake up call was the Grenfell Tower fire when, gazing up at the smoke still pouring from the building in the early hours, he felt the weight of the obligation as a journalist to understand what had happened. Tracing key moments in his

The highs and lows of being a vet in the Yorkshire Dales are perfectly captured in James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small which contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

Nigel quickly finds himself swept up in the world beneath the surface

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Why has this 30 million strong community become the world's Good Samaritan

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But when Svenja impulsively visits this windswept Baltic city

the narrative also delivers a poignant

She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full

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incisively written and entirely fresh in its approach

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and of the alienation and stereotyping he faced at such a young age