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Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind
What Jason Arday's memoir Great and Unfortunate Things tells, and how critics have received it, following his death days after its US publication.
Jason Arday, Cambridge's Youngest Black Professor, Dies Days at 41 After His Memoir is Published
Jason Arday resigned from Cambridge on 5 August amid allegations of academic misconduct he denied. His memoir was published three days before he was found dead at his London home, prompting tribute from colleagues and renewed debate over how certain media reporting against him, not about him, were conducting toxic journalism.
Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken
The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.
In Conversation With Francis Fukuyama on the Last Man He Once Declared Triumphant
In 1989, a young political scientist announced that history itself had reached its destination. On 2 September, at the London School of Economics, Francis Fukuyama returns to ask what he got right, what he got wrong and what thirty-seven years have done to that argument. He discusses his new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man at the London School of Economics on 2 September 2026. Here is what to expect.
Bloomsbury Anthropic's $1.5 billion Copyright Settlement with Authors over 14,087 Titles
The Harry Potter publisher is due a multimillion pound payout from the largest copyright settlement in US history. The more interesting story is what it reveals about how a book's value gets counted once a machine has read it.
Ulrich Brugger's Eternally New Is a Contemplative Answer to the Self-Help Industry
After more than sixty years of writing, the founder of The Ojai Retreat has published a collection of aphorisms that sets itself against the formulas of modern self-help.
Christian Hurst Wins IPPY Gold as the Lily Starling Series Grows Into a Universe
Since April, Christian Hurst's Lily Starling series has added an IPPY Gold Medal, a Kirkus recommendation and an audiobook, with two more novels on the way.
Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble
In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.
Careless People: Sarah Wynn-Williams' Memoir revelling how the elite shaped world events
Sarah Wynn-Williams invented her own job at Facebook, then spent seven years watching it from the inside. Her memoir reads like literature and lands like testimony. The book gives you "a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them."
Gripping Finale Seething Storm Concludes The Patrons of Earth Trilogy By A. N. Jones
A. N. Jones spent a decade writing her way back to the trilogy she started with her late mother. Seething Storm, the final book in The Patrons of Earth series, is words woven with love, grief and strength."
Katrina Bills Wrote an Award-Winning Daily Prayer Devotional That Doubles as a Spiritual Growth Manual
The Chicago-born author and publisher built Prayed Up around real seasons of loss, love, and faith, then watched it win a NYC Big Book Award.
Author Karen Lawrence Delivered Babies in the NHS, Now She Delivers Bestselling Stories
Former NHS midwife Karen Lawrence began writing during the Covid pandemic. Her debut novel The Last Midwife, a dystopian thriller about state-controlled childbirth, became a bestseller.