Alice Fishburn

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A bleak, beautiful novel on the fragility of life and the resilience of the human spirit

Our national addiction to the box set has had one particularly strange side effect. After hours spent in front of The Bridge, Borgen and The Killing, most Brits are now convinced that they speak Danish with some fluency. Sofie Gråbøl, also known as The Killing’s Danish detective Sarah Lund, is not quite so impressed. “People are very proud when they can say tak – I’m like, phhhh. I try to learn hard Scottish words and this is what comes back? It’s such an easy one,” she says. She goes on to reci…

Professor Sue Black knows exactly what she wants to happen when she dies. “I want all the tissue off and I want to be restrung as a skeleton in that corner so I don’t miss out on anything,” she says, pointing across the dissection room at the University of Dundee Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (Cahid), where she is director. Her chosen resting place is a prime spot to watch over a room containing dozens of tables, each holding a bulky shape covered in a plastic sheet. Underneath are…

The things your grandparents have seen and done are in your blood and a million miles from your own experience

As I sit waiting for Daniel Radcliffe in the Jerwood Space café, anxious young men all around me are muttering to themselves. One by one, still mumbling lines under their breath, they are called into auditions that will decide their dramatic fate, at least for the day. Then my name too is announced and I’m whisked upstairs to a large room containing one of the very few 23-year-old actors in the world who no longer has to worry much about auditions. “It is a fantastic position to be in when you g…

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