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In 1923, on the Isle of Lewis, 16-year-old Mairead steps on to the SS Metagama. Ahead of her lies a new life in Canada, and still ringing in her…

Author Ali Miller, raised in the Scottish Borders but now living in London, noticed parallels between her upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness and…

Ava Anna Ada is a poetic addition to the dystopian novel genre, with each page filled by the hum of anxiety.

From Bathgates bruised but brilliant Fern Brady to Louise Welshs exploration of Glaswegian masculinity and Frances Whites fantasy fiction, heres…

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

From Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds to Tlotlo Tsamaase’s Womb City and Ali Millar’s Ava Anna Ada, January’s sci-fi will chase the New Year blues away

Britney, Stephen King and Chigozie Obioma also have new books coming out in the next 12 months.

The 41-year-old claimed her own mother didnt believe she was sexually abused aged 12 and alleges it was covered up by senior male leaders within the religious group.

Vardy, who was a Jehovah’s Witness for 15 years, said making this documentary for Channel 4 was an “emotional rollercoaster”

My community ostracized me in the name of love. What followed was years of confusion