Maggie, a protagonist from Tennessee, a raised evangelical, married young, the narrator of the Jamie Quatro’s novel Fire Sermon says “Imagine writing this all down and giving the manuscript to my agent. This has been done to death”. In response, her agent said, “I won’t be able to sell this”. But Maggie falls in love…
This is a must-have handbook for all filmmakers and at £15.00 it’s a steal. Tony Morris – private practice solicitor has given extensive advice in the media and entertainment spheres and his industry knowledge is second to none. Producers need help with a myriad of legal matters when making films. Copyright is a major…
68-year-old Christian Wolmar, a London based railway historian and an award-winning writer and broadcaster specialising in transport, examines the complicated legacy of the Indian Railways, including the brutal history. His research which took him over a year, travelling the length and breadth of India on trains, culminated with a lecture on Indian Railway history at…
Lynne Murphy, a professor of linguistics at Sussex University, a dual British and US citizen, and has a British spouse, who grew up in New York state, which makes her ideal person for Brits to complain to about Americans ruining the language. In The Prodigal Tongue, she gives an account of two Anglophone tribes and…
There is growing anxiety about the decline of the privacy in a high-tech era have helped creepy, obsessive persistent stalkers a boost. Leo Benedictus’s innovative approaches and follows the progression of a protagonist from mild sociopathy to deadly jeopardy. Once a target is selected he uses every means available from voyeuristic peeping to electronic surveillance…
End of an Era, predicts how China has appeared a relative haven of stability and growth, and look at China’s authoritarian reform revival is undermining its rise. A frozen political system has fuelled the rise of Communist party and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large as economic cleavages…
In this of age openness, globalisation, Walls and the Indian Salt Hedge, built not of stone or indeed of salt but the thorniest vegetation India could provide, Tim Marshall explores why the British Salt tax was both unfair and unwise and had a little moral right to impose it. The British tended to the hedge which…
Men novelists have been named as winners of the Romantic Novel Awards for the first time, ending over 57-years in which female writers held a monopoly on affairs of the heart. Kerry Wilkinson and Marius Gabriel are first men to be honoured at the ceremony under their own names since the awards were founded in…
The world is changing faster now, in 1958 an average lifespan of a company was 60 years and now the lifespan is less than 20. Bestselling science writer Leonard Mlodinow, we are going to need less linear, logical analytic reasoning and more creative “elastic thinking”. We should be allowing more ideas to emerge bottom-up from…
Digital tool, you presume as a transparent and democratising “disrupters”, but as currently deployed algorithms pose a major threat to the human rights of marginalised groups. Safiya Umoja Noble, an assistant professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, pens her experience in her latest book Algorithms of Oppression. Noble used Google…