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Booms and busts covering six decades

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Jeremy Grantham entered the investment business in the ’60s, when he brought the thrifty Quaker values and Yorkshire Independence he had been raised with. While other money managers were focused on blue chip stocks, he studied the stock market history and constructed by hand the first indices for small-cap and value stocks. Charting their ebb and flow, he could see clearly the powerful force that would become central to his investment philosophy: mean reversion, “the heartbreaking principle that good times always revert back to more boring, more ordinary times.” In the early ’70s Grantham was a pioneer of index investing. … Continue reading Booms and busts covering six decades

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Janey’s innocent candor

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Janey Devine, is a 12 year-old working-class girl in nineteen seventy nine Glasgow, who happens upon the body of a murdered woman- and must face an insular community desperate for answers, as well as herself. If it hadn’t been for her wee stupid dog, Sid Vicious, Janey might never have stumbled upon the corpse of Samantha Watson. And then maybe she’d still be able to sleep at night. And maybe her nana wouldn’t be so worried all the time. And maybe Billy “The Ghost” Watson, a notorious gangster, wouldn’t be on her tail- for it’s Billy’s daughter who was left … Continue reading Janey’s innocent candor

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Confronting evil both past and present

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James Lee Burke, now in his nineteeth year, the elder statesman of US crime-writing’s greatest creation. Louisiana bayou, iconic detective Dave Robicheaux, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence. When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux’s property, he knows his world and family are about to change.  Robicheaux has already appeared in his 25th full length novel since 1987’s The Neon Rain- remains a beguiling and brilliant character. With Valerie Benoit a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Department who is … Continue reading Confronting evil both past and present

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Vengeance, deceit and the power of love and forgiveness in a world of lies

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David McCloskey, former CIA analyst and best-selling author, takes readers deep into the shadow war between Iran and Israel. Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skilful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct … Continue reading Vengeance, deceit and the power of love and forgiveness in a world of lies

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Metafictional reflections

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Rob Doyle the Irish author’s fictional novel, in episode one  we get a perky book-world send ups and downs of creative life. It takes the form of a vertiginous hall of mirrors on gazillion-selling Dublin, novelist Ren Duka, who has unexpected, runaway international success with a prolific series of auto fictional novels. What begins as a playful satire on literary ambition and the chaos of our times expands into a dazzling, polyphonic odyssey that challenges the border between fiction and reality. As the Ren Duka novels race outwards in widening circles of influence, we encounter Dina Tatangelo, cult novelist of … Continue reading Metafictional reflections

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Fever Pitch: Two protoganists rivalry

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Nadia Davids, an award-winning South African author, paints a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s in her latest novel Cape Fever. A young Muslim maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner. In small unnamed city in a colonial empire in 1920, Soraya Matas believes she has found the ideal job as a personal maid to the eccentric Mrs Hattingh, whose beautiful, decaying home is not far from The Muslim Quarter of a harbour city where Soraya lives with her parents. She comes highly recommended to Mrs Hottingh through … Continue reading Fever Pitch: Two protoganists rivalry

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Reconnect and revive our sensorial pathways into awareness

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Sir Wayne McGregor, a choreographer renowned for his trailblazing innovations in performance. His ongoing enquiries into movement and the body have radically defined dance in the modern era. Over the past three decades, he has discovered that our intelligence lies not only in our brains, but in our bodies too. McGregor dislocated his knee in his early twenties, as he was immobilised and forced to relearn how to balance and co-ordinate. He discovered swiftly how his body could adapt and reconfigure itself when attention was redirected. Injury, becomes an accidental laboratory for understanding what McGregort calls “ physical intelligence”: the … Continue reading Reconnect and revive our sensorial pathways into awareness

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 Pharmaceutical revolution

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Off the Scales is the inside story of the creation of Ozempic and its revolutionary impact on public health. The Pharmaceutical industry have long been searching for a cure for obesity, one that seemed unattainable until recent breakthrough in type 2 diabetes research which led to the development of Ozempic, a weight loss medication that activates a hormone in the4 stomach called GLP-1, making people feel fuller for longer.These wonder drugs bearing names such as Wegovy, Zepbound and Mounjaro, all tackles obesity and also cut the risk of downstream diseases such as heart disease and stroke. One in eight Americans … Continue reading  Pharmaceutical revolution

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Bitter challenger for the farmer, moneylender and the pimp

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Although the story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes, Kim Bowes, professor of Ancient History and archaeology at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, in Surviving Rome, unearths history of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labour. Bowes focuses on the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokies. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a … Continue reading Bitter challenger for the farmer, moneylender and the pimp

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The Globe Theatre at 21 Globe Walk

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Diving into theatrical history in the 21 st century Shakespearesglobe.com currently playing Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Mid Summer Nights Dream, soon to be performed Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare). It is a very popular venue, and don’t miss the details about the Sam Wanamaker theatre next doorand open all year round!The Globe Theatre at 21 Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, South London SE1 was in modern times the brain child of Sam Wanamaker who came to the UK in 1949, and who died in 1993. Buildingstarted in 1970 and finished in 1997 – they relied heavily on donations to complete the … Continue reading The Globe Theatre at 21 Globe Walk