The novel JUNE 17th delves incisively into issues that effect humans at a vulnerable young age that fester into trauma in later life. The question that the author, Alex Schulman asks is: could your childhood still be controlling your life? …
There’s a motherhood story that when Donald Trump first announced that he was running for president in 2015, Tucker Carlson, the then host of Fox & Friends Weekend, was one of the few pundits who took his candidacy seriously. “He …
At a time when the media flood us with messages of despair, works like BICYCLOPOLIS provides a plausible– possible antidote; a simple, earnest story of a believably sustainable town, armed to defend itself against imposed progress, may resonate with those …
There is frisson that’s embraced when regarding the graphic novelist’s version of Proust’s labyrinthine classic that’s sumptuous and elegant, a feat of digestible beauty.
When Stephane Heuet, a French comic artist began publishing his graphic adaptation of Marcel Proust, it …
The Ottoman Empire collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of time the story goes, before the so-called ‘sick man’ of Europe succumbed to its ailments– …
I read Mary Shelley’s spellbinding novel in my youth before I was aware of myths and schizophrenia, so I was somewhat at a disadvantage.
The book’s first several chapters cleverly stack up like a geometric proof, each chapter contributing to …
This was a gripping read by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust, Saul Friedlander
DIARY OF A CRISIS explores the past turbulence and traumatic year of Israeli politics begining in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests
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This fantasy/romance novel centres around Wren, princess of Thezmarr, an alchemist and poisoner, and Torj, a warrior whose bravery is renowned across the Midrealms. These two have history, having fought together in the magical Shadow War …
Alison Lester’s much loved children’s book MAGIC BEACH hs been reimagined for the screen.
Via Lester’s book you can visit a perfect beach where you can swim, surf, splash through the waves, build sandcastles, beachcomb, explore rock pools, muck about …
THE SUNBIRD by Sara Haddad tells the story of a young girl, displaced as a result of Al Nakba or ‘the catastrophe,’ the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Structured as a parallel narrative, the …