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She exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women's lives.

Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, a definition and defence of what 'freedom of speech' truly means, and an irreverent behind-the-scenes look at the life of one of the world's most infamous writers.

In this short, elegant essay, Ivan Rogers, the UK's former ambassador to the EU, draws up nine lessons for Brexit that we, as a soon-to-be `third country', need to learn from the last few years, if the next few years - indeed the next decade - are not to be even more painful.

`Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis.