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While climbing Everest and trekking to the South Pole, he was also the owner of the world’s most northern hotel on the island of Spitsbergen far up in the Arctic Circle. He has written numerous books drawing on his high-risk expeditions and two stunning novels: Everest: The Death Zone (2017) and The Great Bear (2019). […]

Nigeria’s Lanre Olagoke, a celebrated international artist, was once a homeless, sleeping rough on the streets of London in a world of drugs anmd poverty. Arriving in London from Nigeria, aged nineteen, Lanre slid into an abyss which he puts down his own weakness and his parents failing to understand his love of art. Lanre […]

It’s a year exactly since protestors stormed the Capitol building in what is widely described as an attempted coup, and for our second New Year Goldster Inside Story we are travelling to Washington, D.C. – the heart of US horse-trading, power-broking and politics – to talk to Anthony Franze, a Supreme Court lawyer who has […]

Hilary Brown is a pioneering, boundary-breaking journalist who covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq and was the first female foreign correspondent hired by the American television network ABC News. She was one of the last journalists to be lifted by helicopter from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon in 1975, during the Communist takeover […]

The Old Man and the Sea is the classic by Ernest Hemingway who tells the story of Santiago, an elderly Cuban fisherman with little but hope to sustain him through a punishing life. Published in 1952, it was Hemingway’s last substantive work after novels that recast modern literature such as A Farewell to Arms (1929), […]

From murder mysteries in the windswept landscapes of Iceland, to tales of chilling greed in the world of banking, to knife-edge dramas involving incidents that brought the world to the very brink of nuclear catastrophe, Michael Ridpath is among Britain’s most versatile bestselling novelists. His first novel, Free to Trade (1995), was a financial thriller […]