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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

27 June 2025

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe

JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

27 June 2025

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite

Somerville, MA - October 27: Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out from Simon & Schuster (U.S.) and Little, Brown (U.K.) in June 2025 on October 27, 2024 in Somerville, MA. ( David Degner / www.DavidDegner.com )

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

25 June 2025

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to the late, great Oliver Sacks

A woman looking at a species exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

25 June 2025

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in Nature's Memory

Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

20 June 2025

Author Kaliane Bradley delves into the making of her best-selling novel The Ministry of Time

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14138456b) An aerial photograph taken by drone shows the recently felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, Britain, 05 October 2023. The famous tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down on the night of 27 September 2023, leading to the arrests of a 16-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage. The tree appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and was part of the landscape for 200 years. One week after Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, Northumberland, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2023

A new book argues that revenge is an addiction – but doesn't convince

18 June 2025

Recovering "revenge addict" James Kimmel Jr. makes the case for retaliation to be understood as an addiction in new book The Science of Revenge. It's compelling, but doesn't quite add up

Brixham UK. 09-19-23.Agatha Christie's book, Miss Marple's final cases. A murder mystery story.

Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie's knowledge of toxicology

18 June 2025

Agatha Christie's murder mysteries are made all the more compelling by the author's personal expertise, reveals Kathryn Harkup's new book V is for Venom

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A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

11 June 2025

How did we lose the sense that some parts of life should be off-limits rather than open to commodification? Tiffany Jenkins's thoughtful new book Strangers and Intimates explores

2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

11 June 2025

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel