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This week I step down from the Hay Festival, where for the past decade or so I’ve been a trustee, vice-president and chairman (or, alternatively, chief cook and bottle washer). I’ll be staying on in an advisory (and probably quite annoying) capacity, but operationally I’m done. Ten years is long…

A jolting memoir of motherhood, a gripping debut novel about family politics and faith, and a fascinating study of our relationship with ancient trees

Onjali Raùf’s morality tale for children, adapted by Nick Ahad, fluidly harnesses schoolkid energy, though important details are often reported rather than enacted

A biracial family in rural Somerset struggle with relationships and identity in a debut novel of subtle originality

David Almond’s young adult novel is brought to life in a soulful production that weaves its mythical elements with imagination

The author’s warm and shrewd account of her incident-packed existence is a hymn to her survival skills

The former New York Times editor’s remarkable book on Alabamians fighting for the Union in the civil war, and his own family history

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