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Farewell to Lyra: The Rose Field, by Philip Pullman, reviewed

25 October 2025 9:00 am

In the final volume of The Book of Dust, Pan’s quest for Lyra’s lost imagination takes him east into another universe, while Lyra heads the same way looking for her daemon

The greed and hypocrisy of the opium trade continue to shock

10 February 2024 9:00 am

Amitav Ghosh admits he found writing his history difficult because of the obscene profiteering and suffering he had to cover

Land of the Donald

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Welcome to Trump’s America, where greed is great and viciousness beautiful

Pilling’s progress

25 January 2014 9:00 am

Four bishops and a retired civil servant shut away in a palace, talking about human sexuality — it sounds like the…