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Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon review – classical tragedy as a Celtic caper

This clever debut uses a modern Irish vernacular for the tale of mismatched buddies staging Medea with Athenian prisoners in ancient Syracuse

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Derek Draper obituary

Political adviser during the New Labour era until the 1998 Lobbygate scandal who became a psychotherapist

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes review – wonder lust

From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a thrilling journey in the footsteps of the ancients

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Ava Anna Ada by Ali Millar review – at the end of the world

Fraught themes of maternal ambivalence and ecological crisis are explored in this intense apocalypse story

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Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie review – an optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

This book is full of pragmatic, hopeful solutions to environmental challenges. But is there something missing?

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The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli review – a tsar is born

The imagined life story of a shadowy Kremlin insider offers a chilling perspective on Putin’s Russia

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Hyper by Agri Ismaïl review – the tidal forces of money

A Kurdish family is uprooted and blown around the globe in this flinty and ambitious debut of big, heady ideas

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A Farage farrago, crypto crime and rivers of cash: the 2023 Observer business awards

Bank boss Alison Rose, Binance’s Changpeng Zhao, Sarah Bentley of Thames Water and OpenAI’s Sam Altman feature highly on this year’s prestigious honours list

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Feast your eyes, feed your soul: the 31-day art diet for January

Brighten up dark January with our one-a-day selection of works of art chosen and introduced by the Observer’s art critic

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Grenfell families ‘left in limbo’ lash out at delays to decision on demolition

Residents say ministers have wasted six years and ‘dodged’ making plan for tower since fire claimed 72 lives

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Tenants left living in squalor in Britain as landlords escape heavy fines

Exclusive: housing association payouts over failures to fix life-threatening mould and damp average only £445

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‘The worst meeting I have ever had’: why a Kindertransport hero rejected a film about his life

As One Life is released, producer says that Nicholas Winton – the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children – was reluctant for his story to be told

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You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – the birth of Mexico

Real events are compressed into one extraordinary day as Spanish conquistadors penetrate the heart of Aztec civilisation, in a novel of hallucinatory vividness

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Francis Spufford: ‘It was the sorrow of my life at age 10 that there wasn’t one more Narnia book to read’

The author on learning to read with JRR Tolkien, being in awe of Patricia Lockwood and the comforts of Katherine Addison

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Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff review – a real poser

An ingenious and accessible discussion of a big question we’ll never answer – the reason for our existence

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My Friends by Hisham Matar review – the pain of exile

This delicate novel explores the bonds between three Libyan men living in London, far away from their homeland

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Shame: The Politics and Power of an Emotion by David Keen review – Trumpism’s lifeblood

An intriguing analysis of the driving force behind rightwing populism

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Guardian and Observer charity appeal hits £1m in reader donations

More than 8,500 readers have so far given to charities providing help to refugees and asylum seekers

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Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth review – mother’s ruin

In this darkly satirical novel about 21st-century motherhood and women’s labour, the protagonist seeks liberation at a brothel-cum-yoga studio

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Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall review – notes on a scandal

A much-needed retelling of the extraordinary story of Harold Wilson’s right-hand woman

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Escaping Xi’s China by paddleboard: ‘I rushed into the water and thought if they catch me, they catch me’

Dissidents face an uncertain future in Taiwan and South Korea after fleeing

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For many, the case for assisted dying is clear. But life – and death – is often not so simple

Diana Rigg made a compelling argument because she had terminal cancer, but recent experiences abroad suggest a more complex reality

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Parenting advice, from the experts of the 1980s

What did the last generation of parenting gurus learn from their own parents? The Observer went to find out in 1985

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The Observer view on Tory economic policy: only active public investment will cure Britain’s ills

The government’s reliance on the private sector has led to a UK economy on the brink of recession and a crumbling state

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Two former health secretaries join calls for new law on assisted dying

Senior Conservative and Labour figures said they would back changes to legislation on the issue in England and Wales

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