Liz Anderson

The books that made an author

Sebastian Faulks has named 40 books which “shaped his writing”. He’s picked works by Tolstoy, Stendhal, Iris Murdoch (one of only five women — no Jane Austen), Solzhenitsyn, Colin Thubron, J.D. Salinger, Philip Larkin… To see who’s on the list and who’s missing, head over to the Waterstones website.

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Britain is increasingly seen as a bit-part player. That’s down both to our post-Brexit identity crisis and being gradually overtaken by emerging economies such as India and Brazil.  But it’s also because British diplomats don’t have the skills they need to advance Britain’s interests with purpose and credibility.  Take foreign languages. Almost three quarters of Britain’s

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