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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese carrion crow examines the fruit of its labors On the Pacific island of New Caledonia, the crows demonstrate a tool-making, and tool using, capability comparable to Palaeolithic man’s.

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 ...