Pulitzer winning The New York Times reporter Isabel Wilkerson reveals the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. She displays how stories of real people and its insidioys undertow emerges everyday and records its surprising health…
Free-spirited young British writer’s The Liar’s Dictionary, gives a lexicographical insight, with rich language and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic but clever and funny, intoxicated with joy and as vivid as Dickens. Eley Williams explores themes of trust and creativity. The novel also interleaves two stories, set in 1899 and the present day…
True crime story of corruption, greed, fraud, celebrity, and justice in a cheating scandal of Meritocracy. Bribes are not necessarily the phenomenon of third world countries where the elite can buy into almost anything, but US universities are open to accepting bribes for elite college admissions. For most Americans, admission to Yale is as unlikely…
Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about Covid-19 and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken as valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems overwhelmed for the avalanche of infections that followed. Covid-19 revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can…
Miss Aluminium named after a modelling gig Susanna Moore got at a trade show, is a detailed account of her life as she moves from being a model to bit roles in films to reading scripts for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. Brought up in the 1950s and early 60s Susanna navigates a new era…
A Saturn Herald Short Story. A Hair Raising Experience. By Penny Nair Price James did always wonder why his girlfriend’s nervy sister Sue seemed to want to go and freshen up for so long before every supper. Her short hair did not take much cosmetic attention compared to Rachel – his girlfriend’s tresses, which hung…
Mary L trump, a highly literate, trained and licensed gay clinical psychologist and Donald Trump’s only niece, shines a ray of light on the dark history of their family and explains how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security and social fabric. Older brother Freddie, who died an alcoholic…
Tale of two women entangled in a gothic exit strategy from their unhappy marriages. Amanda Craig confirms in her latest wise and witty novel, offering compassion and philosophical stimulation every women she interviewed about divorce used these words “It would be much easier to be a widow.” Two women, Hannah who is desperate after her…
In 1959 contraception was finally made available to unmarried women in the UK, Helen Brook a family planning pioneer said “To think that at last women could be in charge of themselves, decide for themselves. Women were really going to be free.” Six decades later are women really free as pay inequality is entrenched in…
Charles Dickens, a great orator and one of the most famous of the eminent Victorians, with his hyper-energetic personality, experiencing the best and the worst of life during the Victorian Age, looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died. Dickens wanted the real world divided neatly into good and bad, like the characters…