Paul Collier on The Plundered Planet

Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with The Plundered Planet, he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to reconcile the immediate needs of the world’s burgeoning population with a sustainable environmental future.

Exclusive interview with Marina Lewycka

Enjoy this Bookhugger exclusive interview with international bestselling author Marina Lewycka, the writer of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans and current bestseller We Are All Made of Glue.

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Feeding the 5,000 – an interview with Tristram Stuart

On Wednesday 16th December 2009, Trafalgar Square will host a free feast of biblical proportions: a modern day Feeding the 5000. In this short film, Tristram Stuart, author of Waste, explains the problem – and outlines the solutions.

Did the Vikings wear Viking helmets?

George Miller talks to Robert Ferguson about his major new history of the Viking age, The Hammer and the Cross, and asks him how much of our image of the Vikings is myth, how much reality (and did they really have horned helmets)?