This is the Guardian. the magisterial new novel from Richard Powers.

She had the ocean, and the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement,

all her panic and pain and love into a place far larger than anything human.

Playground by Richard Powers

long listed for the Bookerer Prize. Out now in Hardback, E-book and audiobook.

Hello, Grace Dent here with news. I've been cooking up fresh episodes of my podcast

Comfort Eating and they are now ready to be devoured. Chock full of chat and brimming with

autumn cheer.

Join me as I talk to the likes of Stanley Tucci,

Vanessa Felt's Richard E. Grant and Rag and Boseman

about life, love and the grub that has seen them through.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Listen wherever you get your pop-ins. On the 5th of November, the United States of America votes for their next president.

Who's it going to be?

Truthfully, the answer to that question is a coin flip at the moment, so you buckle up.

As the US comes to terms with the devastation caused by two major hurricanes,

wildfires burn through huge swathes of South America,

and the Sahara Desert floods,

this election comes at a pivotal time for the planet.

I wrote the first book about what we now call climate change way back in 1989.

And at that point it was all warnings about what was going to happen.

Now it's all bulletins and alerts about what is happening.

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