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Read of the month

I Think We Should Kill Other People by LM Chilton

31st March 2026

Hazel and Marc were paired together on revolutionary new reality TV show Love Synced, in which AI matches hopeful lovers based on its perceptive algorithms. But when it came time to say ‘I Do’ on camera, Hazel couldn’t go through wi…

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Featured author

Clifford Beal

Clifford Beal worked for 20 years as an international security and foreign affairs journalist and is the former editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly in London. He is the author of the non-fiction Quelch’s Gold (Bloomsbury), the story of the career and subsequent trial of a little-known but remarka…