(Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images) There are many excellent rookies throughout the NBA right now but it’s not clear who will win Rookie of the Year. The season is young and there is still plenty of time for changes but right now, Zach Edey is doing more than anyone else from the 2024 draft. […]
1 Nov, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
My dad's toes were cut off one by one…and then his body dissolved in acid by gangsters. After a childhood like that, tackling Hawaii's infamous Pipeline wave was a walk in the park
How could a cocky blond 20-year-old upstart from Australia be about to win the most prestigious surfing competition in the world: the 1978 Banzai Pipeline Masters in Hawaii?
25 Oct, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
In Season for 40 Years by Sally Clarke: The most important woman in Lucian Freud's life…or at least the one who kept him fed
Constance Craig Smith reviews Sally Clarke’s new book which celebrates the 40th anniversary of her restaurant, Clarkes. A book filled with famous names, anecdotes and history.
13 Oct, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
Gray Matters by Theodore H. Schwartz: Natasha Richardson, JFK and Abraham Lincoln all suffered catastrophic brain injuries. But in a fascinating new book, a top surgeon asks… COULD THEY HAVE BEEN SAVED?
Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson all lost their lives due to shocking brain injuries, but this new book delves into whether they could have been saved.
4 Oct, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
He was so beautiful that women stared, and his legs were reckoned a wonder of the world. But was the Duke of Buckingham… THE KING'S LOVER, LOYAL FRIEND – OR POISONOUS PERVERT?
His legs were considered a wonder of the world and many thought his ambition led him to poison James I, but Lucy Hughes-Hallett reveals the truth about George Villers.
30 Sep, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
The GORY greatness of Henry V: The King burned his friends alive and political rivals were hung, drawn and quartered. But historian Dan Jones says he wasn't cruel … just pragmatic
To many he was a ruthless and excessively harsh ruler. But Kathryn Hughes discovers that Henry V was actually just a product of his age and instead of being cruel, he was in fact pragmatic.
26 Sep, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
Do you prefer yours Naked or with the Whole Shebang? (Crisps that is…)
Whether you like them salty, tangy or tart, crisps come in all shapes, sizes, packets and colours. Now in Nathalie Whittle’s ode to crisps, Mark Mason discovers all there is to know behind the crunch.
23 Sep, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
What is your therapist REALLY thinking? That's the question one patient and her psychotherapist answer in their remarkably honest fly-on-the-wall book
There are many books by psychotherapists about their practice, with heavily-disguised case histories, but what actually happens in the room? Both Sides Of The Couch gives two perspectives on one story
23 Sep, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
Never Saw Me Coming by Tanya Smith: The female 'Robin Hood' who conned US banks out of $40m
The neighbour of Prince, friends with Michael Jackson’s dad and thief of $40m, Tanya Smith has had a wild life. Glenda Cooper discovers all in Smith’s memoir, Never Saw Me Coming.
18 Sep, 2024 | Admin | No Comments
Devil In The Stack by Andrew Smith: The real Moriarty was the godfather of computers
From the first computer at Bletchley Park to the modern codes written very second, Andrew Smith’s new book takes us through the evolution of computers.