A Guardian critic called it “one of the most shamelessly unrepentant, petulant, politically and economically jejune and cliche-ridden books I’ve read”.
Former PM’s first-week sales compare with 21,000 for David Cameron’s memoir and 92,000 for Tony Blair bookLiz Truss’s book about her 49-day stint as prime minister sold 2,228 copies in the UK during its first week on sale, after a wall-to-wall promotional media blitz.Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons from the Only Conservative in the Room, combines an account of Truss’s time in office with a call to arms for the political right. Continue reading
Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to doI was impatient to get going. Plans had been made. I picked up my phone. “ChatGPT. Write me a memoir in the style of an excitable five-year-old on acid.”“We’ve only got 10 years to save the west,” I declared solemnly. Continue reading
The winning author will receive a cash prize of £30,000 and the ‘Bessie’, a bronze statuette.
Social media can be a divisive place, but even more so when it comes to Taylor Swift. A Google Drive link allegedly containing 17 tracks that are purportedly from Swift’s eagerly awaited “The Tortured Poets Department” album has been making the rounds on the internet in the past day and people are equal parts mad, sad and happy about it. CNN has reached out to Swift’s representative for comment. The actual album is slated to drop at midnight Friday, but the claimed leak is both being hailed and...
She was awarded a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh.
Published by Yale University Press in the US and Penguin in India, it tells the subcontinent’s story from the British Raj to independence and partition.
Ukrainian troops have fallen back to new positions west of Berdychi and Semenivka near Avdiivka
Putin's forces have targeted a hotel housing “English-speaking mercenaries”
Britney Spears says 'My family hurt me' in scathing post and praises Jennette McCurdy's book about dead mother after she got 'no justice' and her father Jamie's $2 million bill as a shock solution - By Glenn Thomas for Dailymail.Com Published: 7:00 p.m. EDT, April 28, 2024 | Updated: 8:01 p.m. EDT, April 28, 2024 Britney Spears has cried injustice as she lashed out against...
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