We are standing in the inner ward of the Tower of London amid school parties and anorak-clad tourists while Jeffrey […]

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WHAT BOOK would classicist and writer MARY BEARD take to a desert island? Mary Beard would take Homer’s Odyssey in the […]

Massacre of the innocents: More than 330 people – including 186 children – died at Beslan. Reporting on it gave journalist […]

WHAT BOOK would chef, author and television presenter Nadiya Hussain take to a desert island? UK chef Nadiya Hussain is […]

WHAT BOOK would author and former actress Lynda La Plante take to a desert island? Lynda La Plante would is currently […]

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Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Seoul is a megacity, with a […]

A four-page letter that Ernest Hemingway wrote to his lawyer after the writer survived two back-to-back plane crashes in East […]

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