Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heather Parry’s fourth book Carrion Crow is a distressing, claustrophobic read. Set in London’s Chelsea ...

A new study shows that crows, in this case the carrion crow, can count out loud just like human toddlers. This discovery ...

From the author of Orpheus Builds a Girl shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award Carrion Crow follows a young woman in an attic where she has been imprisoned by her mother for ...

Heather Parry’s Carrion Crow is an interesting and clever take on the form, which highlights both its strengths and weaknesses. “Victoriana” seems to relate to 19th century literature much ...