A chilling tale of the helpless and isolated individuals victimised by a well-funded organisation, and of the lengths to which those running such organisations are prepared to go to cover up their mistakes. Nick Wallis’s revealing tale of the suffering inflicted on blameless individuals seeking to make an honest living in their small shops…
Authoritarian leader has come to dominate global politics ever since the beginning of the millennium when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia. Self-styled strongmen have risen to power in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington. Everywhere they go, these leaders encourage a cult of personality. How and why did this new style…
The Pandemic saw strong book sales in major developing markets in 2021, with adult and young adult fiction embraced by a vibrant community of readers posting recommendations on the short video app in increasingly competitive attention of the economy. The chances are we will continue to keep buying and reading books as the technology…
Welsh experienced the simultaneous effects of deindustrialization, the subsequent loss of employment and community cohesion, and the struggle with its language and identity. Battle of Relics is a history of the people of Wales undergoing some of the country’s most seismic and traumatic events the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh…
Freedom to Think is a story about trillion-dollar tech companies, their algorithms, and categorises us and jumps to troubling conclusions about who we are. Their intrusion further into our lives also shapes our everyday thoughts choices and actions – from who we date to whether we vote to our sexual orientation with facial recognition technology…
The Slow Road to Tehran by Rebecca Lowe, is a two-wheeled adventure tale, travelling 11, 000 miles, a year-long adventure plodding from Europe to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, and the UAE before finally arriving in Iran. Lowe, who was the chief reporter at the International Bar Association, is adept at human rights issues,…
We are fascinated by the French, their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. British Journalist and historian Peter Watson, says France is the nation’s long tradition of the Renaissance salons that were breeding ground for poets, writers, philosophers, scientists, and artists in the drawing-room of…
“Celebrating life in words and pictures”. Balraj Khanna – “Born in India Made in England” – his new book – in tandem with his Art Exhibition at Osborne Samuel Gallery 23 Dering Street W15 1AW until April 14th 2022. The Vernissage was on Wednesday 30th March 2022. Venue opposite John Lewis, off Oxford Street and…
April 1941, Belfast has escaped the worst of war, but it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished. Two sisters, four nights, one city, following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship…
Twenty-two-year-old Albanian, Arsim, is newly married and cautious trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Set in Pristina in 1995, with some sections taking place in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars, follows a love affair between Arsim a married Albanian who want to be a…