Precious Little Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a prequel to the magical novella Made Things, which has just been published. It’s so good that I now have the novella.
Chris Grey asks what ‘getting Brexit done‘ actually means. There are some nasty surprises in store for anyone who thinks that Britain leaving the UK in January will be the end of it.
Robert McCrum remembers Clive James, who died last week.
Jennie Rigg points to what the phrase ‘poisoning of political discourse‘ means for real people.
And finally, here’s Wumo on Black Friday: