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Imperfect Memories: Shocking murder in the Kiwi bushes 

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A young girl, starving and covered with blood, turns up in a general store in a remote village deep in New Zealand. She blurts out her name- Anya – but refuses to say anyting else. A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush and the witness who looks all too familiar draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller. The phone rings for Effie, a police officer who fled that very village under terrifying circumstances 17 years earlier and is now in Scotland. An old friend, Lewis, is on … Continue reading Imperfect Memories: Shocking murder in the Kiwi bushes 

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World of Organised Crime

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A bandit becomes a monarch, a gang becomes a government and organised crime at the heart of every modern state. Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, showing how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it. Mark Galeotti, a prolific author specialising in Russia and organised crime, shows “our dynamic interconnected globalised networked cross-cultural world is so permeated by organised crime. It is very hard … Continue reading World of Organised Crime

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World of Organised Crime

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A bandit becomes a monarch, a gang becomes a government and organised crime at the heart of every modern state. Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, showing how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it. Mark Galeotti, a prolific author specialising in Russia and organised crime, shows “our dynamic interconnected globalised networked cross-cultural world is so permeated by organised crime. It is very hard … Continue reading World of Organised Crime

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Marriage, love, betrayal, infidelity

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Roberta Green, a graduate student on the master of fine arts programme at the fictitious Edward University in upstate New York is presenting a searing thesis project about two married professors tiptoeing towards infidelity, as their transgressions are brought to light in Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian. The facts she is presenting pertain to the romantic lives of two of her tutors: a married couple named Simone and Ethan both in their early forties. Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, … Continue reading Marriage, love, betrayal, infidelity

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Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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In Men in Love, action takes place over roughly, three years upto 1990, Welsh has to think himself into an era before smartphones and the internet. Late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin- a time for hope, for love, for raving. Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy … Continue reading Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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Workplace romance virtually

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Moderation by Elaine Castillo is the real romance in the virtual workplace, a story about the possible future of live. Girlie Delmundo is the greatest content moderator in the world, and despite the setbacks of financial crises, climate catastrophe, and a global pandemic, she’s going places after getting a promotion. Now thanks to the parent company Paragon’s purchase of Fairground- the world’s preeminent virtual reality content provider- she’s on the way to becoming an elite VR moderator, playing in the big leagues and, if her enthusiastic bosses are to be believed moderating the next stage of human interaction. In another … Continue reading Workplace romance virtually

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Ultimate hope for survival

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of five novels, Sara Gruen, from western North Carolina, whose works have been translated into forty-three languages and have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Water for Elephants was adapted into a major motion picture in 2011 starring Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattison, and Christoph Waltz and then into a smash Broadway musical. Jacob Jankowski, as a young man, was tossed by fate onto a rickety train. There is preparation for a circus across the street from the nursing home where Jacob lives. He is not sure of his exact age but … Continue reading Ultimate hope for survival

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Raindance festival London: The Palestine Comedy Club

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THE PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB – RAINDANCE 33 RD LONDON FILMFESTIVAL VUE CINEMA LOWER REGENT STREET 18-27 JUNE 2025 Charlotte Knowles is the Producer of this meaningful film and her sisterLibby edited it. Charlotte has worked in Hebron, Palestine and she hasmade seven films in all. One of the comedy club – Aliabdallah who is alsothe Director, has an account called regashots – he could not come toRaindance due to visa restrictions. There is much coverage of theproblems encountered by the club in travelling around and checkpointswhich they must pass through to continue their shows. Referred to as“unbelievable logistical feats” the … Continue reading Raindance festival London: The Palestine Comedy Club

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Dark Desires, a smell of leather, the flash of harness, the snap of a latex gloves

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Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects we covet a Birkin bag; we keep trainers box-fresh. We are, in a sense, all fetishists. Occasionally this desire spills into something more subversive. Second Skin offers a tour through the materials, objects and power dynamics commonly fetishized, unpacking their histories, their expressive potential, and the communities they give rise to. Drawing from her encounters with fellow fetishists and kinksters, it is alos the story of ex-fashion critic, Anastasiia Fedorova’s own journey of what it means to come to terms … Continue reading Dark Desires, a smell of leather, the flash of harness, the snap of a latex gloves

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Blurring of public and personal space, amid social media’s constant scrutiny

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Private life is now in mortal danger according to acclaimed cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins, who takes readers on an epic journey, from the strict separations of public and private in ancient Athens to the moral rigidity of the Victorian home, and from the feminists of the 1970s who declared that “the personal is political” to the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age. Strangers and Intimates is both a celebration of the private realm and a warning as social media, surveillance and the expectations of constant openness reshape our lives, Jenkins asks a timely question: Can private life survive the demands … Continue reading Blurring of public and personal space, amid social media’s constant scrutiny