Once upon a time, long before university degrees or bills or taxes or deadlines or any of those things, we were children curled up by the fire reading a book. Life, and books, were easy: goodies were good, baddies were bad and children could save the world. Between child adventurers, independent girls and talking cats, a showcase of the childhood reads that inspired our writers network, as voted for by them
She may not have made it to the top ten, but Roald Dahl's heroine Matilda (independent woman 3) is the idol of bookworms throughout Britain
Of icons and immigrants in Athens (18 images)
Hipsters: Copenhagen’s multiculturalism undressed
Young Kosovars in a country independent 4 years
Best of ‘What society thinks I do’ meme
Tunisian caricaturist _Z_
Spain wins world press photo award 2011
Lucian Freud exhibition in London
Name the contemporary Chinese star (10 images)
Beheading buildings and burghers in Vilnius
‘Babelians’ of 2011 (12 images)
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