From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists.
Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too ...
Canute, King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’. 1523: Amsterdam bans the assembly ...
The Safe Keep, a novel about the expropriation and theft of Jewish property during the second world war, revisits a dark ... James is an incredible re-writing of Mark Twain’s 1884 American ...
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The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial AmericaNew archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and ...
Before becoming US President, Dwight Eisenhower was an Allied Forces Commander in the Second World War. Faced with tough ... refers to a line written by Mark Twain: “Eat a live frog the first ...
When it was first performed, the work was a way to commemorate terrible days that, it was hoped, will never return, yet to ...
The Safe Keep, a novel about the expropriation and theft of Jewish property during the second world war, revisits a dark chapter of Dutch ... James is an incredible re-writing of Mark Twain’s 1884 ...
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