How fiction can help children understand poverty

L If they’re ever looking to recruit spies, forget handsome, fit, blue-eyed Bonds. Forget gym-buffed Daniel, impossibly good-looking Tom and danger magnet Matt. Look instead for a middle-aged woman in

Tom felt like “everything in the world just stopped” when he was made homeless and lost his job just days before Christmas last year. The 22-year-old from Birmingham had been living above a pub with h

Climber Kelvyn James experienced an abusive childhood and, later, the murder of his mother by her husband. In the years since, he found a way out of the darkness. Here is his story.

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Thanks for coming in today, Bea,” said Jason, the commissioning editor at Bluestone Press, where Bea was interviewing for yet another assistant job. “We’ll be in touch.” “Okay, great,” replied Bea, fo

It’s been raining for days. I fantasise about ...