The Young Man and the Old Man – two fanatics in adjacent seats – form a slow but steady friendship over the course of a football season. As their beloved club lurches towards relegation – and as... Læs mere
Writing rhymes for strangers on any subject they choose – as featured on BBC Radio 4
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Finland regularly tops the rankings as ‘happiest country in the world’. Tim Bird looks at what makes the land of the sauna, Sibelius and the Moomins so special
A literary novel about two poverty-stricken young female lovers in early nineteenth-century England... Læs mere
An ingenious, fast-moving satire about oligarchs, art fraudsters and cats and dogs at the communion rail, with a touch of AI, that captures the barking-mad spirit of our age
In a powerful, moving, outrageous and often laugh-out-loud memoir of his five-decade career on the NHS frontline, retired cardiologist Liam Hughes vividly conveys the pain, pleasure and pathos of hospital life and offers a bold prescription for our ailing health service.
Tom’s the boy who biked the world. Lucy’s the girl who rowed across the ocean. Together they are the Adventure Explorers!
Emma Lewis is ambitious for her estate-sale business and bargains hard for the contract to empty... Læs mere
The Blindspot investigates how unexamined influence consistently drives catastrophic institutional failures. Through dozens of case studies, the... Læs mere
Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, Helen can't go back to her own life. In a bid to preserve their shaky marriage,... Læs mere
When a high-flying Toronto lawyer collapses from the pressures of her corporate world, she finds unexpected purpose defending a remote indigenous community from the very corruption she once enabled.