An elegant account of how one ancient language went global
23 April 2025
Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an excellent job of it
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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world
12 February 2025
Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script
Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'
8 November 2024
In her thrilling new climate fiction novel Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner explores the isolated life of an undercover operative who infiltrates an environmental activist group.
Seventh Son author Sebastian Faulks: 'I'm 3.7 per cent Neanderthal'
20 October 2023
Our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller  exploring ethics, genetics and what it is to be human.
Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
29 September 2023
This intriguing extract is taken from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks, the latest pick for our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club. It sees a billionaire entrepreneur recruiting a scientist for his new project, which will have major implications for the human...
Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’
29 September 2023
The award-winning novelist Sebastian Faulks on how he came to set his new novel The Seventh Son – the latest pick for our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club – a little way into the future
