The themes explored in the book - from tech addiction, big tech corporate ethics, misinformation and deepfakes, to AI’s impact on jobs and the human condition - are far more topical and less speculative than the author would like them to be. He started writing in the summer of 2023, as AI rapidly shifted from a technological curiosity to the single most influential force in our world economy.

Author and filmmaker Rebecca Frayn purchased a smallholding in Ibiza to fulfill her dream of reviving the land and establishing an off-grid eco-farm. Her journey, filled with challenges and victories, is detailed in her new book, 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘣𝘪𝘻𝘢.

"I blame it entirely on Dad, this tendency to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. And to rewrite very spare prose. I don't know, is there a gene for that?" says Rebecca Frayn in the interview she had with her dad, Michael Frayn, and Johanna Thomas-Corr, chief literary critic for Culture & Books.

Women have been writing memoirs since the 14th century, most notably Julian of Norwich (1342), Margery Kempe (1373) and French Princess Margaret of Valois (1553). The autobiographical memoir was a format that allowed them to use their voices in spaces that banned them from speaking.