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2 weeks ago | 
thedailynewsonline.com | Malcolm Forbes |Caryl Phillips
Since his debut with “The Final Passage” four decades ago, Caryl Phillips has built a reputation as a renowned chronicler of the immigrant experience. His impressive body of work has spanned centuries, traversed the places he has called home — St. Kitts, Britain and now the United States — and centered around characters that are all too often restless and rootless, displaced and dispossessed.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Malcolm Forbes
Caffery Bone, the literary editor of a London periodical, receives an invitation to stay at the mansion of the publication’s proprietor. It doesn’t bode well. Bone is painfully aware that Lord Ower has a track record of hosting those he wants to fire.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Malcolm Forbes |Katia Damborsky
Writing about publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes, son of Forbes founder Bertie Forbes, author Christopher Buckley wrote: “Malcolm is an antidote to the horror stories about extreme wealth. He’s generous as hell and he likes to have fun.” It makes sense then, that Forbes owned a 162-foot yacht called The Highlander, which was famous for hosting parties with guest lists that read like a Who’s Who of the world’s social elite in the 1980s.
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1 month ago | 
timesdaily.com | Malcolm Forbes
For almost four decades now, Jonathan Coe has employed wit, insight and scalpel-sharp satire to deliver compulsive, incisive novels that chronicle British lives and explore facets of Britishness.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Malcolm Forbes
One day in 1959, Pvt. Joseph Caan, a 19-year-old soldier in the British army, visits a German town hall on a fact-finding mission. The official who receives him, Hans Büchner, notes the young man’s nerves and tries to put him at ease with his near-flawless command of English. Pvt. Caan would like to know what happened to his Jewish relatives in Hanover during the war. Büchner informs him that he has come to the wrong department but still offers to help.
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1 month ago | 
bostonherald.com | Malcolm Forbes |Garrett Carr
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): “Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future.”Carr’s first novel for adults, “The Boy From the Sea,” shows how that future pans out for both the foundling and the family he becomes a part of.
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1 month ago | 
engelsbergideas.com | Malcolm Forbes
Mary Shelley in Bath, introduced by Fiona Sampson, Manderley Press, £19.99The birth of Frankenstein has become the stuff of literary legend. In 1816, the so-called ‘Year Without a Summer’, 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin – not yet Mary Shelley – travelled to Switzerland with her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby son William and her stepsister Claire Clairmont.
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1 month ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Malcolm Forbes
By Malcolm Forbes, The Minnesota Star Tribune One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): "Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future."
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1 month ago | 
thederrick.com | Malcolm Forbes
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): “Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future.” Thank you for reading! Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Malcolm Forbes
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): "Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future."Carr's first novel for adults, "The Boy From the Sea," shows how that future pans out for both the foundling and the family he becomes a part of.
