Burning questionsFrom cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient which seek answers to burning questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious

It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier

Polly dives down and is suddenly able to breathe

Now There Are Two of You' tackles a new addition to the family and all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple

very grubby dog

The Interview is a heart-pounding thriller from C

admired and abhorred

The Manxman hadn't won a single Grand Tour stage in Italy

comparable in scale

but she can't bring herself to feed on them

Wasn't that Monkey's plan

Khan uncovers a place quite different from the one she anticipated

Paul Tremelling was just seven years old when he watched the Royal Navy's Sea Harriers leave their home base in Somerset to do battle against the Argentine Air Force in the Falklands War