In the wake of their father’s death, a brother and sister recall the violent domestic dramas of their childhood

A merciless ETA terrorist is in hiding in Spain – but which of three seemingly innocent women is she?

Timothy Garton Ash weighs the consequences of the push towards a single currency, the West’s dependence for energy on Russia, and Brexit, among much else

Under the much-vaunted new secularism, Muslims were treated as second-class citizens at best - and were often the victims of mass pogroms

The buzz of modernity has plagued us since the Industrial Revolution – but even Thoreau tired of practising his ‘habit of attention’ at Walden Pond

Death permeates these stories, as Nell – a stand-in for Atwood – mourns the loss of her beloved partner Tig

A complex novel explores the ways we try to understand a world that isn’t good or fair or causal or even comprehensible