A year after the Costa book awards ended, high-street coffee rival Caffè Nero is launching a set of awards celebrating children’s books, debut fiction, fiction and nonfiction. Unlike the Costa Awards, there will be no poetry prize at the inaugural…
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The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 by Atlantic Books (UK) and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The White Tiger is the story of…
Summer is over and children are back at school in some form or other and as everyone settles back into the school term, it is important to remind parents that they must keep their children’s literary knowledge up to a…
Since the revolution-turned-civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced, it’s a conflict that is beyond the understanding of adults and has divided people, yet it…
On September 9, 1828, writer Leo Tolstoy was born at his family’s estate, Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula Province of Russia. In the 1860s, Leo Tolstoy wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, followed by ‘Anna Karenina’….
Quite often fictional characters are the ‘teacher’ that us the reader have, to help us learn about a particular topic and although we know they are not real but they remain our source of information and an effective element in…
As the UK celebrates father’s day this Sunday, I have brought to you Eight father figures from various novels that explore the different impact and representation of fatherhood on the novel’s plot. King Lear by William Shakespeare King Lear is…