We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

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It’s another classic from the much-loved Belfast writer/illustrator Jeffers, known for Lost and Found and The Way Back Home. This one is about a little girl, Bridget, who has a birthday. She would lik

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Food prices have soared. Climate change is ravaging the Earth. Our ability to get food on supermarket shelves and dinner plates is stretched. And that’s just 2025. What will it be like by Christmas di

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