We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our own, to learn, to see with others' eyes.
The 32 is a celebration of working-class voices from the island of Ireland. Edited by award-winni
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How do ordinary people become revolutionaries?
In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srdja Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world.
Popovic was one of the unexpected le