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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

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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

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Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

11 June 2025

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the role of women

1.5 Degrees Celsius is the magical border - after that, there's no going back. Fridays For Future, 20.09.2019 in Bonn, Germany

Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world

4 June 2025

Understanding the meaning of "equals" in mathematics tells us a lot about both the nuance and richness in the field, but also how ideas of equality are used or misused in life

Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

4 June 2025

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be

Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

30 May 2025

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

30 May 2025

In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discovery about the nature of time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

30 May 2025

The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling novel, the latest pick for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club

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A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth's resources

28 May 2025

Philip Marsden's book Under a Metal Sky is an engrossing look at how we have excavated key metals and rocks over the millennia. It's a story shot through with awe, power, greed and hubris