Karen Joy Fowler is a Book-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes with an epic novel about the notorious, ill-fated Booth family of Charmers, liars, drinkers, and dreamers, who will change history forever. The story of the brilliant and ill-fated Booth family. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor…
Cormac is a photographer forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself “the leftover man”. Through talent and charm, he has escaped small-town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night, and receiving boilerplate…
Three UK firms combined worth over £3m have been snapped up by overseas players in a buying frenzy. Clipper Logistics accepted a 920p-a-share bid from the US and GXO Logistics, a key provider of deliveries for M&S and John Lewis, JD Sports, and Asda disappear from the UK stock market. John Menzies the cargo group that…
Great Britain ended the Beijing Winter Olympics with two medals – a gold for Women’s curling and silver for Men’s curling. Eve Muirhead’s fourth attempt, after heart-breaking near misses and career-saving surgery on an arthritic hip, finally has her Olympic curling gold medal, said “ Without these girls being so strong, this dream would not…
Colin Barrett, a regular in the New Yorker, a prize-winning author of Young Skins, in 2013, introduces chronicler of small-town County Mayo, in rural west Ireland with a serious prose style, brings eight stories, and takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits, and…
The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. Joseph Sassoon reveals the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal success, and how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay, the vast…
India achieved the feat after defeating West Indies by 8 runs in the second T20I of the three-match series at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Full-time Indian captain Rohit Sharma is yet to lose a single game. Pakistan is the only other team to have won more than 100 T20I, by winning 118 T20Is.
Storm Eunice with gusts of 122 miles, one of the worst to hit the UK in three decades is sweeping across the British Isles. Airline pilots are having to use their skill to land planes safely at Heathrow airport, as over 436 flights have been either delayed or cancelled and an Air Portugal jet was…
Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu has been killed in a car crash with a truck while travelling on the Kundi- Manesar-Palwal Expressway that bypasses Delhi. The actor was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. A video from the scene showed a Mahindra Scorpio which Sidhu was driving smashed into the rear…