Darkmans by Nicola Barker finance An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s

An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it

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Stories of the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian reach are breathtaking - the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands

Darkmans by Nicola Barker finance An eye-opening exploration of humanity’sShortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents. If history is a sick joke which keeps on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's jester, whose favourite skit was to burn people alive? Or could it be Andrew Boarde, physician to Henry VIII, who wrote John Scogin's biography? Or could it be a Kurd called