Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is publishing a new memoir and will personally sign every copy. “I’ve done more books now, I think, than Shakespeare, sort of,” said Ryder,... Read more »
Each December, hundreds of thousands of diaspora Nigerians and Ghanaians travel to their ancestral home countries. For many, the draw is the end-of-year party season – better known as “Detty December”, a... Read more »
Helen Garner says the State Library of Victoria has been turned into “party central” and a plan to cut jobs and focus on digital projects will “bring disgrace on the name of... Read more »
Literature loves a dinner party. From Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to more recent offerings such as Sarah Gilmartin’s The Dinner Party and Teresa Präauer’s Cooking in the Wrong Century, an intimate soiree provides... Read more »
This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party as a case study in the global history of communism, Silvio... Read more »
The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party. Asked at... Read more »
If you live in a marginal constituency and felt bombarded by leaflets, billboards and online ads at the last general election, brace yourself. Last year, Michael Gove dramatically increased the limits on... Read more »