Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
by Eric Lauren Johnson’s Margaret Beaufort is both a resurrection and a reckoning. It is a book that dares to reclaim one of English history’s most polarising matriarchs—“the mother of the king’s
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by Eric Piers Morgan’s Woke Is Dead reads like an obituary written by the accused at the funeral. It is brash, polemical, and intentionally blasphemous against the new secular religion of progressive
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by Durga Dr Gwen Adshead’s Four Questions About Violence is one of those deceptively calm titles that conceals a detonator. It’s a book written by a forensic psychiatrist who has spent decades
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by Eric Göran Rosenberg’s Israel: A Personal History is a reckoning disguised as reminiscence, a confession of belief betrayed by history and ideology. In revisiting his formative years in the fledgling State
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by Durga Dennis R. Dalton’s Unit 33 reads like a moral experiment conducted under the cover of a thriller. The book’s sleek façade—its crime scenes, its corporate espionage, its terse dialogue—conceals a
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The revelations come from Tina Gaudoin’s book, The Incidental Feminist, which was discussed at the Cheltenham Literature Festival this week. Gaudoin claims that Thatcher engaged in an affair early in her career
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When her mother passed away, I immediately sent Arundhati Roy my condolences, recalling our brief meeting in Sweden with another remarkable figure, Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the Pentagon Papers. I wrote,
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by Nil Julian Richards’ Pakistan’s ISI: A Concise History of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate stands as an incisive, unflinching inquiry into one of the world’s most enigmatic and polarising intelligence services. Written
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by Eric Retired from the Sri Lanka Navy, Rear Admiral Rathnayake’s work is immediately distinguished by its rare integration of operational experience, academic rigour, and a profound understanding of regional geopolitics, particularly
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Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective, believed that his brother, Mycroft, could also have been a brilliant solver of crimes if he had not been so impossibly lazy. Mycroft was large and
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by Nil Yossi Cohen’s The Sword of Freedom is far more than an intelligence memoir; it is an erudite dissection of geopolitics, a meditation on destiny, and a confessional reflection on the
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When Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519, he encountered cities, markets, schools, courts, astronomers, and rulers — institutions strikingly familiar to those he had left behind in Spain. Two civilizations, separated
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Tropical fish are among the most popular pets in the world, with millions sold every year to brighten aquariums in homes, offices, and even car dealerships. Yet behind their vibrant colors lies
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More than four decades after its publication, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong’s The Brethren remains one of the most controversial books ever written about the United States Supreme Court. It is frequently
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by Nil The Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa, edited by Prof. Rohan Gunaratna and Dr. C. Nna-Emeka Okereke, represents a rigorous scholarly effort to dissect the complex and escalating phenomenon of
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