![]() ![]() In 1987, Rees-Jones enlisted in the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, served one tour of duty in Northern Ireland and was awarded the General Service Medal. ![]() At Fitzalan High School, he enrolled in the Combined Cadet Force. ![]() At ten, he returned with his family to Oswestry, on the Welsh border near his father's childhood home. He has an older brother, Gareth, and younger brother, John. Rees-Jones was born on 3 March 1968 in Rinteln, West Germany, the middle-born of three boys of Colin Rees, a surgeon in the British Army, and Gill, a nurse. Some media reports claimed he was wearing a seat belt and survived, but investigations revealed that none of the occupants of the car were wearing their seat belts. Because he suffered a serious head injury, he does not recall any details from the crash. Trevor Rees-Jones (also known as Trevor Rees born 3 March 1968) is a British author and former bodyguard who was badly injured in the car crash in Paris that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The fanzine commissioned him to answer fan letters after he won a quiz at the first London Beatles convention. Lewisohn has been writing about the Beatles since 1977, when he became a contributor to the fanzine Beatles Monthly. The Beatles and related subjects Early books His works include The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (1988), a history of the group's session dates, and The Beatles: All These Years (2013–present), a three-volume series intended as the group's most comprehensive biography. He has been referred to as the world's leading authority on the band due to his meticulous research and integrity. Since the 1980s, he has written many reference books about the Beatles and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps. Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English historian and biographer. ![]() The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Josh Lanyon has done it again with her latest entry into the ongoing saga of Will and Taylor, agents of the deceptively tranquil sounding "Department of Diplomatic Security." While I'm sure these two are happy to find a peaceful resolution, when possible, most of their work seems to involve more high-octane adventures complete with exciting chases, hand-to-hand combat and shoot-outs. ![]() In 2019, Fatal Shadows became the first LGBTQ mobile game created by Moments: Choose Your Story.She is an EPIC Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee, and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads All-Time Favorite M/M Author award.Find other Josh Lanyon titles at Josh on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. The Adrien English series was awarded the All-Time Favorite Couple by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. ![]() In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place on the list). Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. Her FBI thriller Fair Game was the first Male/Male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, then the largest romance publisher in Italy. Author of nearly ninety titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance, JOSH LANYON’S work has been translated into eleven languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gannon Award (one person selected annually worldwide from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, the arts and other humanities, and the natural sciences). ![]() In 2000, he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), a New York Times bestseller.īostrom holds bachelor degrees in artificial intelligence, philosophy, mathematics and logic followed by master’s degrees in philosophy, physics and computational neuroscience. He also directs the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center. Nick Bostrom is Professor at Oxford University, where he is the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. ![]() ![]() It is revealed that Lexi and Jack were in a relationship and that he broke her heart. Lexi cannot imagine how on earth he had the guts to call her and talk about another woman after what they had been through together. Jack somehow asks if Lexi could convince the new girl in the block Bekah that he is ready to commit. After staying for two years without speaking, she gets a phone call that ultimately changes everything. The book introduces two characters by the name Jack and Lexi who have never been in any healthy relationship. Linde currently lives in Lubbock, Texas with her husband and two puppies.Īvoiding Commitment is the first novel in Avoiding series by K.A. ![]() During her free time, you will find her reading fantasy novels, dancing, watching TV, and geeking out over Star Wars. She also served as the head coach of Duke University dance group. She served as the head campaign worker for 2012 presidential campaigns at the University of North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a Masters Degree in political science. ![]() Linde is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of more than ten books including the Record Series and the Avoiding Series. ![]() ![]() Modesitt, Jr's, New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio, and the fourth book in the story arc that began with Madness in Solidar through Treachery's Tools and Assassin's Price.Ĭharyn, the young and untested ruler of Solidar, has survived assassination, and he struggles to gain control of a realm in the grip of social upheaval, war, and rioting. Treachery's Tools (The Imager Portfolio #10) (Hardcover):Īssassin's Price (The Imager Portfolio #11) (Hardcover):Įndgames is the stunning final volume in L. Madness in Solidar (The Imager Portfolio #9) (Mass Market): Rex Regis: The Eighth Book of the Imager Portfolio (Mass Market): ![]() Imager's Battalion (The Imager Portfolio #6) (Paperback):Īntiagon Fire: The Seventh Book of the Imager Portfolio (Mass Market): ![]() Princeps: The Fifth Book of the Imager Portfolio (Mass Market): Scholar (The Imager Portfolio #4) (Paperback): Imager's Intrigue (The Imager Portfolio #3) (Paperback): ![]() Imager's Challenge: Book Two of the Imager Porfolio (The Imager Portfolio #2) (Paperback): Imager: Book One of the Imager Portfolio (Mass Market): This is book number 12 in the The Imager Portfolio series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s an Ulster protestant and works as a criminal barrister in Belfast.īut there are subsidiary storylines that showcase other aspects of Cushla’s life and go some way to explain why she’s embarked on a forbidden relationship. She’s from working-class Catholic stock and teaches at the local primary school. The main story is about Cushla’s clandestine relationship with Michael Agnew, an older married man she meets in the “garrison town” pub owned by her family. But maybe I’m being harsh - or too cynical. Throw in the complexities of their religious divide - she’s Catholic, he’s Protestant - class differences and a bloody and violent sectarian war playing out around them, then the chance of a happy-ever-after seems particularly far-fetched. But as much as I enjoyed it on a superficial level, I found the storyline predictable and cliched.Īt one point, Cushla Lavery, the main character, tells her lover: “This is going to end badly, isn’t it?” And I wondered why it had taken her so long to figure it out because when a young woman falls for an older married man it never really ends well. Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2022 and shortlisted for a slew of other awards, Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses is the tale of a doomed love affair set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.Įvery second person in the world seems to have read it - and loved it. Fiction – Kindle edition Bloomsbury Circus 320 pages 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Photography comprises a collection of essays that Sontag originally published in the New York Review of Books between 19. “While most critics were worrying about photography’s status as art, Sontag was thinking about photography in relation to consumer culture.” ![]() “Sontag was prescient in her understanding of photography’s role in contemporary life,” says Mia Fineman, a photography curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, who has contributed to the first ever illustrated edition of Sontag’s now seminal 1977 book, to be released on 13 September by the Folio Society. But Sontag understood how photography acted as an “exemplary activity” in society-one that uniquely explored “everything that is brilliant and ingenious and poetic and pleasureful”, she told High Times. Photography was considered an illegitimate art form by many of her art critic contemporaries. ![]() “The subject of photography is a form of access to contemporary ways of feeling and thinking,” she said. Similarly, she insisted to The New York Times that she was not writing about photography, but about “the way we are now”. “It’s not about photography,” Sontag kept saying. In the March 1978 issue of High Times magazine, Susan Sontag gave a rare interview about her new book, called On Photography. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It is the EXACT same plot like down to the main characters’ back story,” one person wrote in an Amazon review comparing the two books. ![]() The stories have nearly identical plot twists in the final act. Both novels feature anxiety-ridden, middle-aged female narrators who are afraid to leave their homes, and they witness something suspicious while spying on neighbors. The parallels are numerous, and detailed. “The Woman in the Window” is also strikingly similar to a novel by Sarah A. ![]() Mallory - who was recently the subject of an exposé in The New Yorker that detailed his past as a habitual liar who feigned fatal illnesses and fabricated a tragic family history - has acknowledged that the plot of his novel, which became a best seller, owes a debt to several famous works, including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” and Paula Hawkins’s blockbuster thriller, “The Girl on the Train.” In retrospect, his choice of words was surprisingly honest, a rare acknowledgment in a medium that prizes originality of how deeply he was influenced by other popular thrillers. Last year, while promoting his debut thriller, “The Woman in the Window,” Dan Mallory praised the tradition of literary mimicry: “It is often said that ‘good writers borrow, great writers steal,’” he said in an interview with The Guardian, borrowing a phrase from T.S. ![]() ![]() I haven't read this one, but I loved Mockingbird, and would recommend it. This one is definitely one I'd recommend. Did you know that "Dill" is Truman Capote? Did you realize how influential Lee was in Capote's writing of In Cold Blood? Did you know that she did at one time have plans for a second book? Did you know that Atticus Finch is loosely based on her own father? There are hundreds of I-didn't-know-that facts sprinkled throughout I Am Scout that makes this one so essential to those interested in a behind-the-scenes look at this mysterious writer. ![]() Well researched, well written, I Am Scout fascinates with every page. (For those that are wondering, I AM SCOUT is an adapted version of his MOCKINGBIRD. ![]() Shields is a must-read for any one who has ever been curious about this novel and novelist. ![]() In ten wonderful chapters, the reader gets an introduction to the ever-so-fascinating author Nelle Harper Lee, author of the phenomenal To Kill A Mockingbird. ![]() |