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6 days ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Peter Frankopan
NewsThe unravelling of Iran, and an endgame that will reshape West AsiaDrawing parallels between Trump and Genghis Khan, the article analyzes Trump's negotiation tactics on the global stage. It examines the recent attacks on Iran by Israel, with the US seemingly on the sidelines, and Iran's subsequent outreach to Trump. Trump's demand for 'UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!' mirrors historical power dynamics, potentially reshaping West Asia and the world.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Rosen |Katherine Rundell |Olivia Laing |Jonathan Coe |Ali Smith |Rutger Bregman | +6 more
Zadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life of a Hungarian bodyguard/driver in their midst. Cécé by Emmelie Prophète (out 23 September) vividly depicts the slums of contemporary Haiti via a very online young sex worker who lives her best life on Facebook.
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1 week ago | 
peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan
The events of the last week have been completely transformational. We are witnessing the most important reconfiguration of the Middle East for more than a century. The implications do not just apply for Iran or its neighbouring countries nor for Israel; but to the entire world. Here are some thoughts about the implications and what happens next.
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
You know who. You don't know why. The play date started well. The children happy in one room while their mothers relaxed and drank wine in another. But then the stranger appeared at the window. And then he was inside the house. And then he grabbed the knife... Alice only means to stop him. She doesn't mean to hit him so hard. She didn't mean to kill him.
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
'A profound novel about friendship.
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
'An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules tells us that the same is true for people and nations' SERHII PLOKHYI am writing this story without knowing its end: it begins long before I was born and will continue long after I die. I am writing this story to help myself heal and to make you understand.
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner. In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer.
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
'Delightful, insightful and totally unapologetic' – Bella DePaulo, PhD, author of Single at Heart'Lucy gives modern single women the space to be heard' –Jody Day, founder of Gateway WomenBeing single and childfree is a choice, a joy and a life worth celebratingUnmarried, childfree women are statistically the happiest demographic in society, so why is being single still treated as a consolation prize?
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
_______________ 'A richly woven novel … The voice that guides us around this world darts with wit and lightness in a way that is unique and often lovely' - Rana Dasgupta, Guardian 'The plot gallops along, ensuring a gripping read … thought-provoking' - Independent 'A highly accomplished novel … A multi-layered but shrewdly simple tale'- New Statesman, Books of the Year _______________ BY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION When I can bear no more of separation, when I have...
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1 week ago | 
bloomsbury.com | Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Peter Frankopan |J.K. Rowling
BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true … It reads already like a classic' - Ali SmithShortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionSummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915.
