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Andrew Brooks examines the false comparisons that distort our understanding of developing countries and their healthcare

From debut novels to classic crime thrillers, the year ahead promises a wealth of must-read titles to add to your reading list.

The Big Issue's books editor and regular reviewers treat us to their picks of the best books of the year 2023.

Fascinated by communal living, Mim Spencer and her husband moved onto a farm with friends just months before she gave birth.

A prestigious new writing prize exclusively for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds has been announced by Footnote Press. 

The new Footnote x Counterpoints prize for narrative nonfiction includes a publishing agreement, and welcomes work that ‘crosses cultures and borders’

Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s fourth book, ‘Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora’, is a collection of interviews and a rollcall of prominent Black creatives, thinkers, leaders, and organizers. In conversations with Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka and Toni Morrison, poet Claudine Rankine, publisher Margaret Busby, historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole, actor…

Written by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, published in 2022 by Footnote Press, Between Starshine and Clay is a composition of encounters with 11 living and 1 deceased titan of modern history.

In ‘Map of Hope and Sorrow,’ journalist Helen Benedict and her co-author Eyad Awwadawnan lace fact-laden analysis with heartstopping firsthand accounts.

A selection of recently published books.