Anna Burns is the first Northern Ireland writer to win the Man Booker Prize for the original Milkman, a novel about a teenager girl’s struggle with sex and social coercion in Northern Ireland. She is also the first UK-born winner since Hilary Mantel won in 2012, and the first female since 2013 to collect…
Nora Krug, a German-American author and illustrator, Heimat is small town in provincial southern Germany where her ancestors, farmers and traders have lived for generations, but she moved to Berlin first and then to New York. In Heimat, Krug exemplifies the story of ordinary life in Germany during the darkest moment in the country’s history…
Britain’s Glorious past and fall from grace featured by James Hamilton-Paterson, including Scotch Whisky, Triumph, who incidentally owned by industrial conglomerate BSA, who once provided motorbike for Steve McQueen, in The Great Escape and Marlon Brando in The Wild One, is to become one of the leading players in Britain’s flourishing motorbike industry, which…
Sumner Redstone, the influence of 95-year-old patriarch of CBS and Viacom once wielded over the content of film and television screens. Redstone realised the best way to become US media mogul was to grab a territory as he knew what brought to the sunrise Drive-in the Long Island cinema founded by his father Max Rothstein.…
Michael Ovitz, the former Hollywood agent, who earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy and fierce loyalty to his clients, who writes “We are lucky to work in a golden age of commercial film, in the 1980s at the helm of Creative Artists Agency, which wrested superpower and influence from film studios, its directors,…
Alev Scott, half-British, half-Turkish journalist settled on the Greek Island of Lesbos, on the borders of Turkey, while researching this book on the “ social legacy” of the Ottoman Empire, found herself barred from Turkey. Scott who grew up in London, “was like reconnecting with an absent parent: it feels central to my identity. It…
George Magnus and economist questions whether China can continue to keep all its balls in the air as it tries to reconcile the needs of a market economy with the criticisms of a one-party state. His book Red Flag looks at the four traps that the party is trying to avoid –currency ( renminbi),…
The founder of the world’s largest Hedge fund Bridgewater Associates which is a global macro investment firm and Hedge fund guru Ray Dalio, simplifies the big debt meltdowns by analysing the issue into cause and effect. Dealing with Debt Crises is about spreading out the pain, and spread out the cost of the debt widely…
This is the story of 1MDB, the Malaysian State investment fund unravelled earlier this year under the scrutiny of several international probes. Whose repercussions travelled from Asia to Hollywood and toppled a government. Founded by Najib Razak, the former Malaysian prime minister who was voted out of office after an election dominated by scandal and…
The British lived in India after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II, and the men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian ocean. David Gilmour amazed by his research said “One of the most surprising things I learnt was…