AUCKLAND
1 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37)
On Saturday night you can watch Ishiguro on livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival. The event is amusingly (depending on how you feel about puns) called A NOBEL LIFE: KAZUO ISHIGURO. Because, you know, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he always comes across as… well, you get the idea.
2 First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami (Penguin Random House, $45)
“I hardly ever wear suits. At most, maybe two or three times a year, since there are rarely any situations where I need to get dressed up. I may wear a casual jacket on occasion, but no tie, or leather shoes. That’s the type of life I chose for myself, so that’s how things have worked out.”
Ipswich Building Society will no longer be operating ‘later life’ mortgages aimed solely at over 50s, instead combining its ranges into one set of standard residential mortgages.
The society, which is set to rebrand to Suffolk Building Society later in 2021, has no maximum age caps on its standard residential products taken on repayment terms.
Interest-only products will be capped at age 95 at the end of the term.
The changes are the latest improvement to the society’s ongoing commitment to later life lending, which will still have an older borrower focus but is shifting towards a customer-led approach over a product-led one.
What to Watch Thursday: Specials mark the 10th wedding anniversary of William & Kate Brooke Cain, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 29 Will & Kate 10th Anniversary Celebration (6 p.m., BBC America) BBC America s celebration of the 10th anniversary of the royal wedding of Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and Catherine Middleton starts at 6 with a special on the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana ( Charles and Diana s Wedding: You Had to Be There ) and then Kate: The Making of a Modern Queen at 7. The special on William and Kate s wedding starts at 8. That special will (to quote BBC America): encapsulate the glory of Catherine s breathtaking arrival at Westminster Abbey, as well as highlight extracts from the ceremony and the traditional balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace.