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Kirkus Reviews Gives 'GET IT' Verdict as John H. Thomas’ Echoes of the Gene Wins Two Medals at 2026 Global Book Awards
10+ hour, 54+ min ago (238+ words) Blending science, technology, and suspense, Thomas delivers a provocative story about discovery, power, and the forces determined to control both “I’m incredibly excited and honored to receive both a Gold Medal and a Silver Medal from the Global Book Awards…...
BCNARTS: Best Bets: New English Translation Of Puccinis Girl Of The Golden West Comes To Pacifica, Santa Cruz
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (186+ words) There are numerous versions of "The Girl of the Golden West," a Gold Rush-set tale of one woman's loves, trials and tribulations in a California mining town in 1849. Now, there's a new English translation by Thomas Clark onstage in Pacifica…...
Award-Winning Horror Novel “MAKANDA” by Jeffery Alvey Receives the Literary Titan Book Award
23+ hour, 35+ min ago (158+ words) ...
Documentary unspools the life and times of writer Zacharia
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (476+ words) For years, writer Paul Zacharia has sent characters out into the world — through villages, cities, beliefs, arguments and memories. This time, the journey runs in the opposite direction. The story travels back to the man who wrote so many of…...
Move aside Byron, this is the greatest hero of the Romantic age
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (53+ words) The Times Move aside Byron, this is the greatest hero of the Romantic age Thomas Cochrane — naval hero and revolutionary — was the inspiration for Horatio Hornblower. Peter Moore’s gripping and stylish biography is a fitting monument for an epic, adventurous…...
Other Confessions | Nadera Awiti | Fiction
2+ week, 3+ day ago (686+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh by Nwafor Chiedozie Emmanuel Translated from the original Arabic by Nader Aweti My mother could not protect herself from the malice of the old woman who came regularly to our house under the pretext of kinship…...
Special Storytime For Book Week
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (225+ words) Mirage News To celebrate Children's Book Week we had a special dress-up storytime inspired by our favourite book characters. Children's and Youth Librarian Mel dressed as a Superb Lyrebird from the Eve Pownall award winning title 'Peculiar parents' by Stephanie…...
??l??k??r?? Press Announces Inaugural Prize for Fiction
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (430+ words) New $500 prize invites unpublished short stories exploring the theme ‘Inheritance’ By Emmanuel “Waziri” Okoro The $500 prize is part of Élékéré Press’ commitment to supporting Black writers whose stories and perspectives remain underrepresented in publishing. The press said it is particularly…...
Book review | Bogey decoded, Sameena Dalwai???s book discusses the idea of love jihad in a framework that goes beyond the popular understanding
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (103+ words) Sourced by the Telegraph BOOK NAME- LOVE JIHAD: A FEMINIST RETELLING PUBLIHSED BY- Penguin, PRICE- Rs 599 This book is both unique and an important intervention for several reasons. First, it is written from a feminist perspective. Second, it examines the…...