How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

In Lewis Packwoodโ€™s book Curious Video Game Machines, Voja Antoniฤ‡ explains how he built a console and published instructions for anyone to make their ownVery few Yugoslavians had access to computers in the early 1980s: they were mostly the preserve of…

Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK

World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear powerIn 2019, Franceโ€™s best known climate expert sat down to work with its most feted graphic novelist. The result? Perhaps the most terrifying comic ever drawn.Part his…

โ€˜Death isnโ€™t necessarily always sadโ€™: the pathologist taking the French book charts by storm

Philippe Boxhoโ€™s macabre true stories are approaching 1m copies sold and shedding light on a โ€˜misunderstoodโ€™ jobA girl on a farm is devoured by pigs. A walkerโ€™s throat is slit by the broken-off blade of a lawn mower after it hits a stone. A woman fires…