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Charities urge chancellor to use spring statement to offer support as energy and food costs rise

Rising prices and pressure on incomes mean millions are unable to afford basic items for the home

On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Annas mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Annas brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a person was once she is dead? "synopsis" ...

Harvest by Georgina Harding review – unearthing the secrets of the past Clare Clark Since her debut novel, The Solitude of Thomas Cave, in 2007, Georgina Harding’s fiction has ranged widely, from a 17th-century whaling boat in the Arctic to communist Romania in the 1950s. For all their differences, her books are profoundly connected, each one in its own way a meditation on survival and the aftershocks of trauma. Again and again they return to the implacability of memory, th...