Tiger Woods: Biography

Investigative reporters Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner  and Armen Keteyian, in their first major biography of TigerWoods describes the Shakespearean rise and epic fall of  American icon and  attempted to understand who the real Tiger Wood is and summed up their subject as “the most mysterious athlete of his time,…

Raging Desire

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…

Problem?  A good lawyer?  Ahh – that’s a good answer!

  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…

India’s flourishing Railways and the Raj – Wolmar

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…

Extraordinary journalist

Jan Morris, an extraordinary journalist, Welsh historian, author and travel writer published a book Battleship Yamato: Of war, beauty and irony (2018) to mark her 91st birthday, in which she has shown us the world. She is known for the Pax Britannia trilogy (1968-1978), a history of the British Empire, found inspiration almost everywhere, from…

Stalker’s insight

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…

Alperton teacher best in the world wins $1m

Andria Zafirakou, an art and textiles teacher at Alperton Community College, Brent Secondary school has won the prestigious Global Teacher Prize worth $1m (£717, 000) from Varkey Foundation at a ceremony in Dubai on Sunday. According to Zafirakou, art and textiles are powerful subjects that help the students unlock all of their language barriers. Children…

Cost of revival

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…

Tim Marshall’s gripping analysis of walls

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…