Tinder has acquired These Bodies of Water: Navigating Britain's Imprint on the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz, a "powerful meditation" on the influence of the British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 13:05:17 UTC ]
The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
I first met Glenda Bailey for lunch in 1999, three years after she transitioned from founding editor-in-chief of the British Marie Claire to editor-in-chief of the fledgling U.S. edition—after Bonnie Fuller had left that magazine to succeed Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmopolitan. I recall being... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton wrote an 832-page murder mystery set in Catton's homeland, New Zealand. This is the last year that the Man Booker Prize will be open only to writers from the former British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperPress has signed a book examining the role of the intelligence service during the end of the British Empire. Editorial director Martin Redfern bought UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights at auction to Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton from Jon Elek at A P Watt. The book will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]