How to save the NHS… by five bestselling medical memoirists
With medical memoirs now the hottest ticket in publishing, we asked five acclaimed authors for their views on the crisis in the NHS
The Windrush Betrayal by Amelia Gentleman and Homecoming by Colin Grant – review
Stories from the Windrush generation and a full exposé of the scandal that disgraced the Home Office
George Eliot translation of Spinoza sheds new light on her fiction
Novelist’s work on the philosopher’s landmark Ethics helped develop her astute grasp of human emotion
The Amber Light review – warming treatise on whisky’s liquid gold
This agreeable documentary combines the social history of drinking whisky with a tour of Scotland
Home of one of first Bibles printed in Welsh saved from flood risk
Hydropower scheme at William Morgan’s 16th-century house to keep humidity levels in check
Alan Moore drops anarchism to champion Labour against Tory ‘parasites’
Comics legend, who has voted only once in his life, makes passionate appeal to help defeat ‘rapacious’ rightwing party in general election
Oxford Dictionaries declares ‘climate emergency’ the word of 2019
Usage of the term increased 100-fold in the space of 12 months, dictionary says
Jack the Ripper historian says media still disregard murder victims
Hallie Rubenhold, who won the Baillie Gifford prize for her study of the women killed in the Whitechapel murders, attacked the focus on lurid detail
Baillie Gifford prize won by Jack the Ripper study ‘reclaiming victims’ voices’
Hallie Rubenhold lands £50,000 award for The Five, a history that challenges assumption that the women were all sex workers
The crisis of liberalism: why centrist politics can no longer explain the world
Centrists have been left perplexed by Brexit and the rise of the right, and have decried the erosion of liberal values. But rather than kneejerk defensiveness, it’s time to embrace a radical ‘reset’ of politics
Want to know the real Boris Johnson? Well, it’s all there in his novel, in graphic and horrific detail
The prime minister’s book, Seventy-Two Virgins, is an essential guide to his character and modus operandi
Two Souls by Henry McDonald review – coming of age in the Troubles
Growing up in 1970s Belfast means the thrill of punk and first love as well as the threat of violence
The view from Stevenage: how will the UK’s first new town vote?
In the first of a three-part series, Gary Younge returns to his home town to see how the bellwether constituency views the election
Andrea Newman obituary
Writer of Bouquet of Barbed Wire, the TV series that shocked audiences and originated a new genre of glossy sex dramas
Rushdie and Atwood join calls to restore citizenship to critic of Modi
More than 250 authors urge India’s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer