When a Lesley Kinnock buys a lottery ticket on a whim
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous
and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era
new angles of vision and credible thought' The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Carr argues that our constant exposure to multiple and faster data streams is changing the way our brains are wired
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