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(Aug. 31, 2025) — Before I begin to sing the praises of Chris Pavone’s latest literary thriller, “The…
The Bookseller of Hay: Richard Booth is the wild man who rewrote the literary map
Hanning’s book is fascinating and is full of larger-than-life characters such as Marianne Faithfull, Dudley Moore, Seamus Heaney,…
A preteen’s tale of adventure with ghosts
What do you want readers to take away from the book? Emotions. It’s not just one of them…
Exploring 600 years of branding in Richard Shear’s book
By Richard Shearc.2025, Rockport/Quarto Publishing$24.99, 160 pages Your morning started out all wrong. You couldn’t find your favorite…
Who Will Remain by Kasim Ali: Race, class and tough choices
All that is in short supply. This is Alum Rock in Birmingham, early 2000s, a grim name (referring…
The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K.
The town of Schliersee, about an hour south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, has long been a…
Rhett Davis’ novel takes ‘tree change’ to a new level
Arborescence: quick links Get ready for a fascinating experience when you open this book. In the world Rhett…
Sam Dalrymple on forgotten stories of the British Raj and its five partitions
What if our history books only told half the story? For Sam Dalrymple, that question became the spark…
More Like No Yield: A New Book Explores How Google Soaked Up The Web’s Ad Profits
The English word “yield,” derived from old English, is a relic of a time when a ruling class…
Book Review: Summer in the City will prove to be your guilty pleasure, monsoon fling with reading…. but nothing more!
Published on: Aug 05, 2025 02:01 pm IST Summer in the City by author Alex Aster is a…
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock’n’Roll by Alan Edwards — Behind the scenes with a Starman of rock
But to flick through would also be a disservice to Edwards, in what is a self-deprecating but nonetheless…
Lessons In Liberty From A Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder — Review
Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for the sake of our bodies, and for the…