George Bernard Shaw says that the United States and the United Kingdom are “two countries divided by a common language” and Oscar Wilde said “ We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language. Shashi Tharoor, an Indian schooled in the English language, and born in the most literate state…
“Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose”. Set in the mountains of Southern Appalachia is the story of a boy, set in 1990, and in early 2000, Demon Copperhead is a contemporary take on David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’ autobiographically inspired novel. Damon Field (nicknamed…
This is the inside story of a revolution in China policy, from Washington to Brussels, Berlin to New Delhi. The Rupture explains how many western politicians, thinkers, and business leaders closest to Beijing have become its sharpest opponents, how the Covid-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated this collective rethink, and why 5G represents the first test…
America’s elite universities, envied by the world, as US institutions have the five largest endowments, hold 8 of the top 10 positions in the world and help keep the rich richer – making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today and dominate several subject listing put out by Shanghai Ranking. Poison…
Medieval historian and chair of medieval history at King’s College, London, Peter Heather reveals an engaging survey of Christianity and reassesses its rise, from the ruins of the Roman Empire to the molding of modern Europe. In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting Emperor…
How does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King, write and play highly acclaimed music, and become the first Black person to vote in Britain? Based on the true story of Sancho’s debut novel about the first Black man in Britain who led the fight to end slavery. 1746 Georgian London is not a safe…
A 12-year-old Bird Gardener, son of Ethan Gardener, a white Harvard linguist, and Margaret Miu, a Chinese-American poet, lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too…
Jan Morris, an observational genius with lyricism and humor, is considered Britain’s one of the best-loved writers, the author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books. Born as James Humphry Morris in 1926, a childhood spent amidst Oxford’s Gothic beauty and military service in Italy, Palestine, and Egypt, were followed by…
New York Times, Investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, lift the lid of the “culture of secrecy” and shatter the luminous image of McKinsey & Co. the consulting giant, by unearthing conflicts of interest, corruption, hypocrisy, and strategic blunders that read like a prosecutor’s indictment. Vault.com, an employment site asserts that McKinsey with annual…
Another epic and thrilling installment in the highly acclaimed, international bestselling crime mystery featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. After the personal experience of clashes with transgender activists, JK Rowling recreates the spleen of internet trolls in The Ink Black Heart, her crime-writing alter ego of Robert Galbraith. Edie Lewell, frantic and dishevelled appears in…