Ree in Witcraft declines to trace a single royal road through redundant errors towards a irrefutable truth. In 1601, Hamelt teases Horatio about the “more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophie” and in 1951, Ludwig Wittenstein tells a friend that his later work should carry a motto from King…
In November 1788, George III went mad. The feuds of two giants of 18th century politics offer a flavour to Britain;s present Brexit woes. “ He is now a compleat lunatic”, wrote the Prince of Wales, after reports that is father had been shaking hands with a tree in Windsor Park, believing the old oak…
Bitcoin Billionaires is a tale of Winklevoss twins and their outrageous venture into the chaotic world of cryptocurrency bitcoin exploring the techno-ideological experiments and financial manias. Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of the Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House comes his latest Bitcoin Billionaires. Harvard educated identical twins Cameron and Tyler…
Over the past five years Silicon Valley the US tech sector has been submerged by stories of sexual harassment and discrimination. Julian Guthrie’s latest book “ Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who took On Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime”, charts the lives of four impressive female businesspeople and investors…
Graham Greene, the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Cuba was a paradise especially for those with time and money to burn in search of a story. The British novelist and former spy Graham Greene chose Cuba’s capital as the setting of his 1958 spy novel Our…
A novel set in 2039 written by Quantum physicist and broadcaster Al-Khalili, who visualises a plausible apocalypse as Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and if and when it fails altogether, the planet’s surface will be exposed to lethal levels of radiation from space. Super storms wreak havoc and satellite communications fail, an international group of…
Hilarious, inspirational and heart breaking funny novel, where Queenie Jenkins’s boss doesn’t seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don’t seem to listen, as she tries to fit in two worlds that don’t really understand her. A subversive story of her life, love, rave and family, Queenie you will begin liking. Within…
Betsy K Glory who lives on an island, “ that has been left off the map of the world” among whose native inhabitants is an ex-princes cursed into shape of a toad by her giantess sister. Bosty’s father an ice-cream maker and her mother a mermaid. Princess Albee’s only hope being restored to human form…
The accidental Labour leader will soon be 70 and having spent the first 30 years of his political career in the back benches, on the far right of his party, a change in political climate led to Corbyn being elected Labour leader in 2015,, two years later in 2017 election his party put in…
Banine describes Caucasus as a region caught between empires and epochs between Christian West and the Muslim East, between Tsarist autocracy, Bolshevik revolution, between tradition, superstition and clan. Banine writes about her childhood, her grandfather was one of Baku’s overnight millionaires, a farmer who had the fortune to find oil in his land, and her…