Claire Fuller: I changed career in my 40s. You can make this big shift
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Reviews in brief: ‘Hypocrisy and self-interest’ – a critique of European complacency
Upward Bound by Woody Brown: A non-verbal autistic man’s valuable appreciation of humanity
The Left and the Lucky by Willy Vlautin: Portrait of an unusual friendship and the acts that carry them
Poem of the Week: I Lived in a World, Then I Lived in Another World
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When The World Sleeps by Francesca Albanese: Effortless schooling on intricacies behind Gaza headlines
By Sinéad Gibney
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer serves up history with a human heart
By John Walshe
Juliano Zaffino: It is never not surreal to have inspired Florence Welch by something I wrote
By Martin Doyle
Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose – what has happened to leadership motivated by seriousness?
By Matthew O’Toole
The Fallen - The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence: A perversion of any basic humanity
By Catriona Crowe
Talking Classics by Mary Beard: sounds like eavesdropping on a good Saturday night in Pompeii
By Neasa MacErlean
‘My brother kicked me in the balls, but I threw a knife at his head. We were in a strange world after our parents died’
By Colm McAuliffe
Murder in Paris ’68: Enthralling account of a scandal that even now seems hard to believe
By Oliver Farry
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