A pilot from Sunderland who now flies the super-rich around on luxury planes in the United States has called on his his considerable life experience to write his first book. Dean Corbyn's debut novel is called The Jorvik Prophecy. He wrote the book while he was grounded with many other pilots during the covid pandemic; and now it has been published. The novel is a supernatural mystery story, about a "paranoid New York dentist’s journey to York, England to unravel her ancestral mysteries - and...
Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four J’s.” Presumably she means artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Janis Ian. But maybe one of the J’s is the narrator herself — Jodie Rattler, a moderately famous singer with a knack for writing melancholy love songs. “Lucky” is framed as a rock ’n' roll novel, but it’s a tricky and...
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has commissioned an adaptation of Michel Bussi’s novel Rien ne t’efface from Shine Fiction, which is part of Banijay France. The 6×52’ series is written
Toss New Zealand chose to bat vs PakistanNew Zealand have won the toss and elected to bat. Under overcast conditions in Rawalpindi, on a day where the game has been pushed back by half an hour owing to inclement weather, Michael Bracewell decided to set a target for the hosts. In the first of five T20Is, New Zealand have handed a debut to big-hitting Tim Robinson, with the seasoned Ish Sodhi the sole specialist spinner in their XI.Babar Azam, in his first game back as captain for Pakistan, said...
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Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
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