• BOOK REVIEW: 'Did It Happen Here?'

    The question of whether fascism threatens American democracy became a liberal preoccupation from the moment Donald Trump announced his run for the White House.

  • Book Review – Star Wars: The Living Force

    Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: The Living Force by John Jackson Miller… Of all the time gaps between the Star Wars trilogies, one of the most intriguing is the time before The Phantom Menace, showing us what the Jedi Order was like before becoming embroiled in galactic crises like Naboo’s occupation and the Clone Wars. Author John Jackson […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Book Review – Star...

  • Comic Book Preview – Vampirella/Dracula: Rage #6

    The sixth and final issue of Dynamite Entertainment’s Vampirella/Dracula: Rage is out this Wednesday, and you can get yourself an early sneak peek below with the official preview… The final chapter of Vampirella’s twisted journey with the Lord of Vampires ends in a deadly conflagration of hidden agendas as Dracula’s true motive for helping Vampirella […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Comic Book...

  • Brian Cox reviews "one of the worst books ever," the Bible

    Oh, good, a new contrarian take from Brian Cox just came in! From the old guy who brought you “I could’ve done Napoleon better” and “woke culture is truly awful,” we now have some comprehensive thoughts on the Bible and religion as a whole. Buckle in, guys! “I think religion does hold us back because it’s belief systems which are outside ourselves. They’re not dealing with who we are, we’re dealing [with], ‘Oh if God says this and God does that’, and you go, ‘Well what is God?’ We’ve created...

  • Book Review: Through that lens, Klein looks deeply into the 'mirror world'

    But if your doppelganger is forever spouting extreme views that range from the ridiculous to the outright offensive, well, that would be no fun at all. This is the predicament that Naomi Klein finds herself in, since her doppelganger is Naomi Wolf. Apparently, sharing a first name and the label 'feminist' is enough to make two women interchangeable in the eyes of the doom-scrolling, trolling public. The problem for Klein is that Wolf, the author of an influential feminist text of the 1990s, The...

  • Sign language book reviews: Bridging communication through literature in Hanoi

    The April Festival is an annual event at Xa Dan Middle School, where up to 60 percent of the students are hearing-impaired

  • Entire books celebrate Winston Churchill's insults, but what jibes were directed at him?

    Is there a question to which you want to know the answer? Or do you know the answer to a question here?. Write to: Charles Legge, Answers To Correspondents, Daily Mail, 9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY; or email [email protected]

  • No Reserve by Felix Francis: packed full of suspense and mystery – book review –

    Master of the racing blockbuster Felix Francis is back in the saddle and ready to take us over bumpy ground in this hard-hitting new crime mystery which explores the vast amounts of money that change hands in the sale rings where cash is staked on untested, unridden and as-yet-unnamed yearling colts in the hope they will turn out to be world beaters. It was after the death of his father, the legendary jockey and thriller writer Dick Francis, in 2010, that Francis Junior, who trained as a...

  • No Reserve by Felix Francis: packed full of suspense and mystery – book review –

    Master of the racing blockbuster Felix Francis is back in the saddle and ready to take us over bumpy ground in this hard-hitting new crime mystery which explores the vast amounts of money that change hands in the sale rings where cash is staked on untested, unridden and as-yet-unnamed yearling colts in the hope they will turn out to be world beaters. It was after the death of his father, the legendary jockey and thriller writer Dick Francis, in 2010, that Francis Junior, who trained as a...

  • Tulsi Gabbard repeats false Hillary Clinton ‘grooming’ claim in new book

    Ex-Democrat, reported contender for Trump running mate, sued Clinton for Russia remark but dropped caseTulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman, has repeated a discredited claim about Hillary Clinton that previously saw Gabbard lodge then drop a $50m defamation suit in a new book published as she seeks to be named Donald Trump’s running mate for US president.Accusing Democrats of making up “a conspiracy theory that [Trump] was ‘colluding’ with the Russians to win the election” in 2016,...

  • The Piano review: This show's standout performer? A romantic OAP with dementia, writes ROLAND WHITE

    But last night's undoubted star was modest Duncan, 80, a retired solicitor who had a love story with a poignant twist.

  • The Midnight Rose 2024 by Lucinda Riley: Romantic fiction at its most memorable and captivating – book review –

    When Lucinda Riley tragically died from cancer in June of 2021, she left behind a dazzling legacy of novels, not least her groundbreaking Seven Sisters series. Her gift was to write adventures transporting readers from the pedestrian realities of everyday life to worlds past and present, and on wild adventures in diverse, exciting and colourful locations. And The Midnight Rose, her enthralling and newly republished 2014 novel, is epic in every sense a vast, multi-layered story which glides from...