William Gerald Golding (William Golding | Official website) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the […]
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Martha Batalha (batalha-martha | RCW Literary Agency) is a Brazilian born writer and journalist. She has written for the newspapers O Dia, O Globo and Extra. In 2013, Batalha founded the publishing house Desiderata, which was sold to Ediouro publishing group in 2008. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão was published in 2017 and the
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Jon McGregor (Staff Listing – The University of Nottingham) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002, his first novel, ‘If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things‘, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His second and fourth novels, ‘So Many Ways To Begin‘ and ‘Reservoir 13‘ were also longlisted for the Booker Prize in
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It’s January 2026 and cuddly feelings about an international rules-based world order are beginning to look like a fond memory. The ‘City Upon a Hill’, the beacon of hope and democracy that is The United States, is behaving like a nasty playground bully. The fig leaf has dropped revealing some truly ugly body parts. The
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Tim Scanlon (Thomas M. Scanlon | Department of Philosophy) was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy, where he has taught since 1984. In this book Scanlon advances a ‘contractualist’ theory of ethics. An act is wrong if its performance under the circumstances would be disallowed by any
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Set against the backdrop of the 1975 State of Emergency in India, A Fine Balance intricately weaves the lives of four main characters who share a cramped apartment in Mumbai. The author explores the harsh realities of the political climate, showcasing the effects of systemic oppression and caste violence. The spirited widow Dina Dalal, the tailors Ishvar and Omprakash, and
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Jay Frank Rosenberg (Jay Rosenberg – Wikipedia) was an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He spent his teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he joined the Department of Philosophy in 1966 and was appointed Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy in 1987. In this book Rosenberg sets out the central metaphysical
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David Bentley Hart (David Bentley Hart – Wikipedia) is an American theologian who was brought up as an Episcopalian but has converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. Universal salvation is very much a minority doctrine among religious believers, but this is the position argued for in this book. The author puts forward his position as follows: David
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As science develops, its working material can seem remote and difficult to the general reader. This certainly applies to cosmology. Some findings e.g. ‘quantum entanglement’ (What is Quantum Entanglement? NASA Science) are so counter-intuitive as to be incomprehensible. When it comes to cosmology we should thank our lucky stars that some scientists take the trouble
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