Full steam ahead … Mount Aso, Kyushu, Japan Photograph: William Cho/Getty Images/Flickr RFFull steam ahead … Mount Aso, Kyushu, Japan Photograph: William Cho/Getty Images/Flickr RFAdventure travelIf you’re looking for a trip to light up your holiday, these volcanoes all have well-established roads, cable cars and trails up them – and predictable levels of activity
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The ObserverNed BeaumanReviewA will-they-won’t-they relationship plays out in Sweden in this clever tale of a world carved up by ‘extinction credit’ traders
Ned Beauman was listed on Granta’s once-a-decade list of best young British novelists last time out, in 2013, and his latest novel makes clear that, not yet 40, he’s absolutely worth a nomination next year too. Full of fun and big ideas, his conceptually tricksy novels crackle with comic zip, alive to the past (his debut, Boxer, Beetle, and second novel, The Teleportation Accident, dealt in different ways with the legacies of Nazism) as well as the present (his third novel, Glow, was an ultra-contemporary conspiracy thriller centred in south London). Read More...
The ObserverUK news'This could be the last time I see my children'Martin Bright reports on the aristocrat fighting extradition to America who says he is part of a secret deal with the US on the Guantanamo Bay detaineesThe fact that he can trace his family back to the Domesday Book does not appear to count for much when it comes to the wheels of American justice. Giles Carlyle-Clarke, a British aristocrat who can do just that, is facing deportation within days to the United States for drugs offences alleged to have taken place two decades ago. Read More...