On a journey through the Pantanal in Brazil, Kate Eshelby questions what will happen to the wider world if we don’t learn to take conservation seriously

Daniel Wiles The Puma 208pp. Swift. £14.99. This short, impressive novel comes in two parts, and presents the reader with two central mysteries. The first part, “The God of This Living”, introduces us

Toby Green The Heretic of Cacheu Struggles over life in a seventeenth-century West African port 368pp. Allen Lane. £25. At one point in the seventeenth-century Inquisition trial at the centre of this

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Despite recent efforts, we’re losing forests at an unsustainable rate. This is disastrous for not only the species who live in them, but the entire planet

Memories of Maoism It’s 35 years since Jung ...