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Richard Powers novel has its heart in a fine place, but it works by browbeating the reader with lectures and daft melodrama Lets start with the good news. The Overstory contains many clever ideas. Structurally, it aims for something interesting, unfolding (as the sleeve of my copy handily explains) in concentric rings of fable. Richard

We were together for 13 years and planned to move in together. But now I feel I can no longer trust him During lockdown last May, I split from my partner of 13 years. We had been planning to get married and live together. He took me house-hunting, then moved into the place we found,

Carmen bin Ladin and her daughters, Wafah, Najia and Noor, are the only Bin Ladins in the western world to be listed in the telephone book. They live in Switzerland, where Carmen grew up and where she fled to 20 years ago from her marriage to Osama's older brother, Yeslam bin Ladin. I am to

This definitive study of the venerated singer-songwriter, who died at 26, examines his alarming unravelling and short life of artistic torment When the cult singer-songwriter Nick Drakes third album, Pink Moon, was released in 1972 many of his friends were horrified. Now held to be a stone-cold classic, it is a spare, beautiful sequence of

From Elizabeth I to William IV, over a period of 270 years monarchs had links to the slave trade King Charles III and Prince William have expressed profound sorrow at the atrocities of slavery, but neither has publicly accepted the crowns central role in the trade. Over a period of 270 years, 12 British monarchs