- Inweekly Lit Picks In the spirit of Independent Bookstore Day, we decided to share some recommendations for your shopping consideration. These titles are all things we’re currently reading and loving, have recently finished and can’t stop talking about or are planning on …
- Halifax author tackles notorious tale of N.S. family in new novel Halifax author Becca Babcock's first novel, "One Who Has Been Here Before," is part of a recent resurgence of Atlantic gothic writing that subverts the region's idyllic image to tackle darker parts of the past. And in this case she has …
- Novel Platformed imagines foreboding future of climate crisis and the duplicitous hand big tech plays in humanity's fate Josund, a Silicon Valley software engineer, constructs a not-too-far-off-future in which big tech is both salvation and puppet master. Platformed out May 18. SEATTLE, WA, USA, April 21, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- DEBUT NOVEL BY SCIFI/FANTASY …
- Reviewed in short: New books by Margaret Reynolds, Michio Kaku, AK Blakemore and Jay Griffiths The Wild Track by Margaret Reynolds Transworld, 320pp, £16.99 When the academic, broadcaster and critic Margaret Reynolds was in her mid-forties she realised that what she most wanted was a child. Adoption offered her the best hope of becoming a mother, …
- Novel about Vietnam veteran wins $5,000 William Colby prize NEW YORK (AP) — A novel about a Marine’s time in Vietnam and his struggles back home has won a $5,000 prize. Mark Treanor’s “A Quiet Cadence” is this year’s recipient of the William E. Colby Award for best debut book, fiction or nonfiction, military …
- The New Tamagotchi's Camera Lets You Take Photos With Your Virtual Pet Before It Dies of Neglect Years before smartphones, kids’ preferred digital distraction was the Tamagotchi. The tiny gadgets were revived back in 2017, and have since evolved into more sophisticated handhelds. The latest version, the $60 Tamagotchi Pix, has a digital camera that …
- Review: A fight for home and history in a novel of gentrifying London On the Shelf Hot Stew By Fiona Mozley Algonquin: 320 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The building has a secret garden on its roof, planted on a …
- How Annie Mac’s enthusiasm shaped a generation of pop fans Last year I became a staunch Radio 1 listener again for the first time since my teens. I needed the ceaselessly refreshing joy of pop music during the pandemic, but also the pastoral bump on the shoulder from its presenters looking out for audiences …
- Top 10 books about brothers I’ve always been drawn to books about families and all of the tension, drama, and betrayal that can come with them. But books focusing on brothers provide a different dynamic, where emotions are intensified – love, jealousy, rage, all those shared memories …
- Rigging the game with Tabitha Lasley, the woman who broke into the world of North Sea oil workers It’s a familiar Hollywood plotline; the single-minded individual who confronts obstacles, struggles with strangers and ends up being tossed on to the scrap heap, but keeps fighting to bring their dream to fruition. In the movies, there is usually a happy …
