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What a curious book this is. You dont often get good novels about ordinary people living tranquil lives almost completely devoid of incident no shocking discoveries, no crises, no coming to terms with a dark past. The grandaddy of the genre is George and Weedon Grossmiths The Diary of a Nobody (1892), and that

When Bilal Berjawi spoke to his wife for the last time, he had no way of being certain that he was about to die. But he should have had his suspicions. A short, dumpy Londoner who was not, in the words of some who knew him, one of the world's greatest thinkers, Berjawi had been

An Irish family in early 90s London become tabloid scapegoats in this politically astute novel of lives foreclosed Ordinary Human Failings is a considerably more interesting book than it claims to be. Its pitched as a procedural thriller of sorts an unsolved murder, the cops closing in, an ambitious journalist snooping around. While there

The Minnesota congresswoman has written a fine memoir of her journey from Somalia to America Few things are more unexpected than a genuinely inspirational memoir by a freshman member of Congress. If youre looking for the perfect antidote to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald Trump,trythis beautiful new book from the Minnesota

Ship boarded by gunmen who fled and then surrendered when USS Mason arrived in latest incident in region A US warship rescued an Israeli-linked tanker that had been attacked by armed individuals in the Gulf of Aden, the US military has said, in the latest such incident to underscore the heightened risk to