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Emotional second chance romance as accident erases marriage on rocks 

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New York Times Bestselling author, Christina Lauren’s latest unforgettable novel The Romance Revival, one fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory and love gets one extraordinary second chance. Three years ago, Emery Finch did something completely out of character.  He’s an extrovert who always wanted a family but never even planned to get married. He also charms everyone he meets and like dogs more than people, and always like to dance with every grandma, drunk bridesmaid and adorable flower girl at a wedding.  When he attended his cousin’s wedding in Las Vegas, his eyes met, smile faltered for just … Continue reading Emotional second chance romance as accident erases marriage on rocks 

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Algorithms pump toxin content at users of misuse personal data

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Make Tech products and services with safety, privacy and autonomy Sir Kier Starmer’s announcement to ban social media for under 16s, echoing measures in Australia that took effect in December. France, Austria and Spain are among other countries planning similar restriction. Beeban Kidron’s Users, is about a inspired global debate on smartphones rewiring children’s brains and links to poor mental health shows Users catching the Zeitgeist. Baroness Kidron has been campaigning for tech safety, regulation, and children’s rights for over a decade. In her book, she describes the move from a successful career directing films, including Bridget Jones: The Edge … Continue reading Algorithms pump toxin content at users of misuse personal data

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Rise and dominance of the world’s first “Jet age lion of cricket”

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West Indian all-rounder Garry Sobers, got 90 votes in the 2000 Wisden, the bible of cricket, which named the five best players of the 20th century, a choice made by 100 voters from around the world.  Duncan Hamilton in The Man Who Walked Out of the Sun,  fell in love with Sobers when he was a schoolboy in Nottingham, and over the years  followed him around the country as he spoke at lunches and dinners. But he only once approached Sobers and that to request an autograph. He never asked for an interview when writing this book. Instead of contacting Sobers, Hamilton has … Continue reading Rise and dominance of the world’s first “Jet age lion of cricket”

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End-of-life care in conservative Peru

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Lima-based Gustavo Rodriguez’s topical novel about assisted dying, which remains illegal in Peru, amid degenerative muscle disease sufferer Ana Estrada making international headlines in 2022, as she was granted the right to end her life without her doctors facing legal punishment.  Originally published as Cien Cuyes in 2023, it went on to win $175,000 Alfaguara Prize for fiction that same year and is Rodriguez’s first book to appear in English, translated by Daniel Hahn. Eufrasia Vela, a hardworking carer, on her way to tend to Doña Carmen, a lonely elderly bedridden widow living in the affluent Lima district of Miraflores, mourning … Continue reading End-of-life care in conservative Peru

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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