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we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in

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An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it

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Darkmans by Nicola Barker finance we must ask ourselves: whatShortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents. If history is a sick joke which keeps on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's jester, whose favourite skit was to burn people alive? Or could it be Andrew Boarde, physician to Henry VIII, who wrote John Scogin's biography? Or could it be a Kurd called