New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire ( Esquire), Lisa Taddeo’s Ghost Lover is a collection of nine riveting, fearless and ferocious short stories which brings to life the fever of obsession, the blindness of life and the mania of grief, exploring…
Agent Twister is the true story that happened in November 1974, John Stonehouse MP, once a star in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, and a former aviation and telecoms minister has sex betrayal, widespread criminal fraud and is the only known case of a UK minister spying decade-long for a Communist state, went missing in Miami,…
On January 29, 2020, Jay Powell gave the first press conference of his third year as chair of the Federal Reserve, by flipping open a white binder, looking up briefly to welcome the assembled reporters, and then looking down to read his preprepared statement. His demeanour was low key but his message was upbeat: the…
To eradicate extreme poverty there should be a generation of the explosive growth of the sort mustered by Japan, South Korea, and China, and more recently countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh have reached economic escape velocity, In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes as overall poverty has fallen, people live…
Caroline Knowles delves into London’s plutocrat’s paradise with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong, or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey Via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair, and elsewhere. Her walks…
Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Forty years later the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain’s standing in the Middle East and is often represented as…
Geetanjali Shree ( Geetanjali Pandey) was born in Manipuri Uttarpradesh, India, and her translator, Daisy Rockwell, the author of Tomb of Sand which scooped this year’s International Booker Prize the first time a work in Hindi had ever won, then one of India’s biggest dairy brands accorded them the highest accolade, a cartoon rendition of…
One of our surprising and greatest, French and international writers, Emmanuel Carrere’s Yoga begins, Carrere embarking on a rigorous 10-day meditative Vipassana Yoga retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, without his mobile phone, as contact with the outside world is forbidden, along with books, pens and other…
Geoff Dyer, a 63-year-old Briton, sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes, and musicians who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. Dyer examines with playful charm and penetrating intelligence, Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs, English painter, JMW…
Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone, as her husband is gone- no warning, no note, note answering his phone, something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American Embassy, at each confronting question she can’t fully answer what exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her…