Book Review: Peony in Love by Lisa See
Peony, the protagonist in Peony in Love, is a pampered sixteen year old when the reader meets her. She is sequestered in the Chen household with female family members and knows nothing of men beyond...
View ArticleBook Review: The Cloud Pavilion
Laura Joh Rowland has wowed me with another of her stories. I was interested in reading The Cloud Pavilion because of Sana Ichiro, the main character. I first met him in The Red Chrysanthemum, when he...
View ArticleBook Review: Neoliberal Frontiers
Neoliberalism has had a central place in economic rationale for the past forty years. In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin gives a great insight of what it means in specific interventions. She...
View ArticleA childhood love of fairy tales fuelled interest in creative writing
Welcome to the first of our features profiling new authors. Yasmin is a journalism graduate with seven years’ journalism experience who has decided to venture into creative writing. She says: “As a...
View ArticleFamily value on education inspired a love of books
I have loved books and reading from a very young age and was always surrounded by literature at home. I had aunts who were both teachers in the Caribbean and my parents always stressed the importance...
View ArticleNew book examines why Britain has become such a diverse country
When the London riots of August 2011 started to spread across different parts of the country, people questioned whether or not the riots were really about the shooting of a young black man by the...
View ArticleFirst class business graduate becomes scholar and author on Islamic history...
Habeeb Akande is the author of a recently published book called Illuminating the Darkness: Blacks and North Africans in Islam, that seeks to critically address the issue of racial discrimination and...
View ArticleBook Review: What’s love got to do with it? By Ifayomi Grant
This book explores black male/female relationships in the west and suggests seven steps to solving the crisis in relationships based on secondary research, personal stories and opinions gathered from...
View ArticleBook Review: Illuminating the Darkness: Blacks and North Africans in Islam
Habeeb Akande, the book’s author is a British-born Muslim of African descent who graduated from Kingston University with a first class degree in business and film studies. He went on to study Arabic,...
View ArticleNew book on Barack Obama examines race and power in America’s political history
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