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Devastation of separation and the pain of betrayal

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Avni Doshi, the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar  comes a fascinating novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman’s journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family, her betrayal, renunciation, and renewal, who swims to the other side and comes up for air. When my husband comes into the bedroom we have shared thirteen years and tells me he doesn’t want to be married anymore, I reach for my neck. My head is missing. A husband announces he is leaving, that he was never happy. A woman is left behind with their two … Continue reading Devastation of separation and the pain of betrayal

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Pursuit of Dirty Diamonds

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Janet Evanovich, the “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), sends Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working most unappreciated bounty hunter, on the trail of a stolen stash of dirty diamonds. Local jeweller Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a Nusty), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds from his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewellery on the same day. With her boyfriend Morelli away in Miami on police business, Stephanie is taking care of Bob, … Continue reading Pursuit of Dirty Diamonds

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Grace is out making way for rage and fury

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Communion is an intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith. JD Vance was brought up to believe in God. In Hillbilly Elegy, the book that made him famous, he wrote of how, aged six his biological father told him that he had asked God for signs that an adoption was in JD’s interest. “Those signs apparently appeared, and I became the legal son of Bob, a man I’d known for barely a year.” Vance was mostly brought up by his grandmother, “Mamaw”, who felt she … Continue reading Grace is out making way for rage and fury

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Global economic reset

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Dennis Peacocke’s On The Destiny of Nations is designed to provoke a global reaction and a movement especially among leaders, which will help prepare and position people for once-in-a-century opportunity to advance God’s Kingdom amidst a major political-economic crisis lasting perhaps a decade. This is no mere recession, but the beginning stages of a global economic reset that will bring major disruptions and changes over the coming decade. The secular marginalisation of Judeo-Christian values from the public dialogue has helped drive this collapse by creating a values-vacuum prompting massive corruption throughout the financial management systems. Neither capitalism no any other economic … Continue reading Global economic reset

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2nd Muslim International Film Festival, London

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JURY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR 2nd MUSLIM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL   Imran Perretta wins ‘Best Feature’ for ISHAbdelrahman Dnewar & Saad Dnewar win ‘Best Short’ for MY BROTHER, MY BROTHERSHAHEEN BAIG receives MIFF’s honorary Trailblazer To celebrate the films screening in competition at the 2nd Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF), awards were presented to ‘Best Feature’ and ‘Best Short’. The jury comprised Neila Butt (Creative Equality Lead, Channel 4), Imrun Islam (Head of Film and TV Licensing, UK and Ireland, StudioCanal), Naqqash Khalid (writer and director, In Camera). Winners:  BEST FEATURE: ISH (dir: Imran Perretta, UK, 2025)Winner of Breakthrough Producer for Dhiraj Mahey at the BIFAs 2025,  ISH is named ‘Best Feature’ at MIFF. This powerful story portrays best … Continue reading 2nd Muslim International Film Festival, London

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Politicians who had lost the plot

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San Francisco’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its boom nearly engineered its collapse. San Francisco’s Doom since the Gold Rush of 1849 and Bust loop after the pandemic when business flight and surging homelessness appeared to threaten irreversible urban decline.  At the dawn of the 1990s, San Francisco was beautiful if troubled mid-sized metropolis. It was still reeling from the AIDS epidemic and the Lome Prieta earthquake, its economy struck in a post-industrial slump. Once considered to be the capital of the American West, and later … Continue reading Politicians who had lost the plot

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Exhaustion that feels “like a suffocating, papery snow”

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Booker shortlisted author, Daisy Johnson’s Long Wave is multi-generational story of secrets, obsessions, longing, trauma and love, close to the shore is the island, uninhabited, wild with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip in reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel opening up a path … Continue reading Exhaustion that feels “like a suffocating, papery snow”

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Marta Boros

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“Femme fatale of the London/Polish art scene.” Warsaw-born Marta Lola Boros revels in being “Baroque and Gothic, creative and capricious”. Poetry evening white daybreak by Marta Lola Boros, Studio Sienko Gallery,, lantern street, London 2nd July 2026. Marta Lola Boros, poet performed with musical back up from her new catalogue of poetry on 2nd July 2026. She has also exhibited her artworks at the same venue recently at the Gallery Sienko. Recently she gave music artist Boy George a portrait of him by her. She continues to paint and write so look out for her next show, White Daybreak Poems by Marta Lola … Continue reading Marta Boros

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Exploring corruption

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Ghost School 2025 London MIFF 88 Minutes An Interesting take on village life and local beliefs. • Nazualiya Arsalan, Samina Seher, Adnan Shah, Tipu, Vajdaan Shah • Pakistan 2025.• Digital • Urdu with English subtitles • Film by Seemab Gil – Director, Producer Writer. Ghost School would be charming if it was not so serious. It features a ten year old schoolgirl who is investigating the closure of her school because the teacher is possessed by an evil Jinn which is a demonic ghostly spirit known in their local folklore. In her uniform and playing a junior private detective and … Continue reading Exploring corruption

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Streets of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the desert in between

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Close Relationships with Strangers is about  Ben, a Las Vegas wildlife photographer who moves to Los Angeles to become paparazzo and in the process loses his relationships, his morals, and eventually his tether to reality. Reviled by celebrities and the public, Ben is one of the last remaining paparazzi scouring the streets of Los Angeles. Amateurs with camera phones, social media, and a lack of bonafide stars have slowly killed a once essential role in the Hollywood apparatus Jack Whitlock is one of last remaining A-listers, and Ben has followed his career since the years he spent bussing tables at a … Continue reading Streets of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the desert in between