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Ultimate vigilante story

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The Feather men is the riveting story of a secret organization whose efforts by a private British vigilance committee, founded in England in the late 1960s.  Their 14-year attempt to eliminate a band of coldblooded contract killers of a number of British ex-servicemen in Britain and abroad. From 1977 to 1990, three hired assassins known as the Clinic tracked down and murdered four former British soldiers, one at a time. Each of the assassinations was carried out in such an ingenious fashion that there would be no hint of foul play, but one clue these killings has in common was that … Continue reading Ultimate vigilante story

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Swimming with dolphins…

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A English girl named Ishmaelle “born in a windswept cottage in the coast of Kent in the year  1843,” where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After the death of her parents and infant sister, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Call Me Ishamelle reimages the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick from a female perspective. Guo was inspired by a real-life story of 18-year-old Rebeca Ann Johnson who sailed out of Nantucket to Massachusetts, as the American Civil War breaks out in 1861, as part of the crew of the Nimrod, … Continue reading Swimming with dolphins…

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“Britain’s passion for esoteric Black music”

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After the world war, the UK and America were the dominant forces responsible for emergence and evolution of nightclubs and electronic dance music from the 1950s onwards. Transatlantic Drift traces the rhythmic journey of dance music, following the pulse as it bounced between Europe, North America and Caribbean. Music, dance styles and nightclub spaces are not created in isolation; they are shaped by collective influences and shared experiences. Two British academics, Milestone, a sociologist, and Morrison, music journalism lecturer, reveals the interconnected story of dance music, taking in hotspots such as New York, Detroit, London, Manchester, Chicago, Düsseldorf and Ibiza. Britain’s love … Continue reading “Britain’s passion for esoteric Black music”

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Avalanche on Black Sunday

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Magical tale of climate catastrophe – a pure dust storm  is the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted author Karen Russell, in The Antidote where the moving dust looks like a mountain range, or an avalanche on Black Sunday, April 1935, in the central plains of the US. Mid-afternoon, the temperature dropped; birds chattered, horizon turned black to flatten wheatfields, burying houses  and vaporising every memory stored inside the Antidote. She wakes up empty- as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever discover the truth, her life will be in danger. “The onrushing cloud, the darkness, and the thick, choking dirt, made this … Continue reading Avalanche on Black Sunday

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Jetsam of our truths

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Booker Prize-longlisted Dublin-born, Irish author, resident of New York, Colum McCann’s epic novel Twist is about connection, disconnection and destruction. McCann watches seavengers on a coastal dump in Ghana collecting fragments of copper and rubber worth “a week’s worth of food” from discarded lengths of fibre-optic cable. In Twist, inspecting a damaged end of a data-carrying cable, Anthony Fennel, a journalist in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world’s communication across the ocean floor and what happens when they snap. Separated from his son and sunk … Continue reading Jetsam of our truths

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Battle for hearts, minds, literature, and intellects

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Charlie English explains how the CIA helped Poland’s underground print banned books, as over ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain. In 1950s Polish émigré Jerzy Gledroye was running out of cash, after launching a literary review in Paris to save Polish literature from the communist onslaught. In France, funding was scarce, and the Polish people stranded there after the Second World War were improvised and many French intellectuals were enamoured with the USSR. Giedroyc went in search of money in America, as the CIA officers who were keen to undermine Soviet Union censorship, offered him $10,000 … Continue reading Battle for hearts, minds, literature, and intellects

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Lives entwined but divided by love

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Zanzibar-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, he said  “ I wouldn’t have picked me”, although his work does not fit the traditional mould of recent Nobel laureates. His novels were out of print in the US when his Nobel Prize was announced, who praised Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee”. Gurnah, a refugee fled Tanzania during the 1960s Zanzibar revolution, and settled and lived in England for over fifty years. His latest novel “Theft”, is a captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young … Continue reading Lives entwined but divided by love

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Annie’s repressed upbringing

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Catherine Fox has written at least five books solo and an additional autobiography (“Fight the Good Fight”) which is an entertaining history of her life growing up and being a young mother and a martial arts aficionado together with being wife of a man working in the Church of England. She first had the above book published in 1997, and has clearly re-published this year, as afore stated. Catherine studied English in Durham and went on to get a PHD in Theology. She is a former diarist for The Church of England Newspaper and is a writer who can pack … Continue reading Annie’s repressed upbringing

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“RULE BRITANNIA” DAPHNE DU MAURIER – an eye opening strangely topical story featuring“US-UK”

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.First published in 1972 by Victor Gollanz Ltd this is Daphne Du Maurier’s last novel. Du Maurier wrote many fictional books and those adapted to film include: – “Rebecca”, “Frenchman’s Creek”, “My Cousin Rachel” and “The Birds”.Ella Westland pointed out – “The author had known the story of Peter Pan since early childhood. Her father Gerald du Maurier regularly played Captain Hook on stage since Daphne was born and observed Emma plays Wendy to Mad’s Peter Pan, Mad’s boys being the six adopted lost boys adopted by The Darlings. Westland has a book in print “Reading Daphne . A Guide … Continue reading “RULE BRITANNIA” DAPHNE DU MAURIER – an eye opening strangely topical story featuring“US-UK”

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Who’s “Heiffer”?

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In the glorious summer of 1914, Emily Grey, a young Cambridge undergraduate is studying German in Heidelberg, where she meets Hans, a philosopher with grey eyes and long lashes, who wins her heart and asks her to marry him.  Grey, like all women at the time, has not been allowed to graduate -which may be why she has sympathies for the growing demand for women to have a vote. When the First World War intervenes, she is forced to return to England, leaving Hans behind to join the Imperial Navy. A year later, Emily is recruited to serve in fledgling Secret … Continue reading Who’s “Heiffer”?