Actors and Writers London, also known as AWL, hold professional rehearsed play readings on the 4th floor of the Polish Centre, Hammersmith on alternate Mondays. As well as providing a platform for play readings for all kinds of writers, with seated viewing for maybe 100 people with a bar in the same space, it holds…
Memphis, along with Atlanta, central to story of black America, located on the Mississippi River, a starting point for refugees from the Deep South where they can engage with its vibrant African-American culture and heritage. The city produced music and art and also black empowerment WDIA, “ the mother station of Negroes” – Although…
In Graceland, Bethan Roberts’s fictionalised recreation of the early life of Elvis Presley, and his close relationship with his mother Gladys. At 22, 1957, Elvis already a huge star is called up for his military service, the novel looks into the performer’s chaotic childhood with several chapters filled with grownup dilemas concerning show business,…
In Nine Crises, William Keegan examines a series of turning points , starting with the devaluation crisis of 1967 and ending with post Brexit turmoil fifty years later. This book explains how key participants viewed each crisis as it unfolded and what they hoped to achieve. The British economic policy and its policymakers have…
Merchant of Truth breaks the ultimate news story of our times. What happens when Jill Abramson was fired from the executive editorship of The New York Times in May 2014, she thought she had enough freedom to figure out what she wanted to do. And wanted to start a long-form journalism site which failed. Instead…
In 2015 , Leila Slimani’s debut novel, an unsparing account of sex addiction, won 200,000 dirhams ( $22,000), the La Mamounia literary award ( prix de La Mamounia) in Marrakesh – a prize for French-language fiction by Moroccan authors awarded and donated by the La Mamounia hotel in the hotel where Winston Churchill loved to…
What measures will governments and people take in response to such tectonic economic and cultural shift and how to avoid the prospect of undermining the very foundations of prosperity? The US President’ strongest supporters live in the declining states. The UK’s Brexit backers are mostly from struggling regions, as in rich countries the divide that…
The Bedroom is an essay, a working through of Perrot’s various thoughts and literary entanglements, on the bedroom, the room turned askance and viewed via its various uses , turns into a history of privacy and what, exactly, identity, comfort , sequestration and ownership might have meant though the ages to writers as diverse as…
With the arrival of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street in 1979 a major privatisation drive began not only selling industrial holdings, transport infrastructure, the telephone system but also the land and public buildings erected on it. Land makes a major chunk of national wealth and an estimate by the Office for National Statistics concluded…
A Bangalore based educational (edtech) and online tutoring firm founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran, an engineer from Azhikode a costal village in Kerala, India’s largest online tutoring startup and recent entrant to the “unicorn club” is looking to expand into international markets with its latest acquisition of US-based Osmo, a Palo Alto, California startup…