Author Lucy Diamond on the new-found inspiration behind her latest novel, The Island Getaway . . . When people ask how I go about starting a new novel, my stock response has been that I generally ...

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Just under 1000 people call Flinders Island home, and with fewer than half of them working a council-commissioned study says the community has gone beyond a tipping point.

Brimming with emotion, drama and home truths, The Island Getaway sees Diamond at her storytelling best… warm, wise, witty and eternally optimistic. (Quercus, hardback, £16.99) Continue Reading ...

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...

From these tiny fragments we can glean tidbits of information about our planet's interior. A diamond unearthed in a diamond mine in Botswana is just such a stone. It's riddled with flaws containing ...