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The former Foreigner vocalist discussed why his collaboration with Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell failed during a September 2021 interview.

Images of Phar Lap feature in two sales by Lloyds in Australia, from the collection of the Rose Stereograph Company.

The failed invasion of Ethiopia by Italy in 1935 is focus of novelist Maaza Mengiste’s book, 'The Shadow King'.

Five years since the release of The Bones of Grace (Daily Star Books, 2016), the Bengal Trilogy author Tahmima Anam has just published her fourth novel, The Startup Wife (Canongate, 2021), this week. Anam will be in conversation with journalist Georgina Godwin at today's Hay Festival session at 3 PM GMT (8 PM Bangladesh time).

As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in them

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Reading Africa: These five books from the continent will move you In the spirit of Africa Day which is celebrated today, why not pick up a book from a fellow African country? Here is a brief review of the ones that stand out for both plot and setting. 1. Author: Bessie Head First published: 1969 When Rain Clouds Gather stars Makhaya and the lively Botswanan community around him. It echoes some of Head’s own experiences in the country, where she lived for more than twenty years after immigrati...

TORONTO, May 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHAT:Maaza Mengiste, award-winning author of The Shadow King, will deliver the 8th Annual Pluralism Lecture via livestream on May 19, 2021, about approaching difficult

Maaza Mengiste Maaza Mengiste, a critically acclaimed novelist and essayist, examines the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile. She was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and lived in Nigeria and Kenya before moving to the United States. Mengiste’s debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (2010), was named one of The Guardian’s 10 Best Contemporary African Books. Her latest novel, The Shadow King (2019), was called “one of the most beautiful novels of the year” by Natio...

May 1, 2021 By Allison Kooser This month, our Book Club is also traveling to Colombia through fiction, diving into a popular new novel about the very first country in which Opportunity International gave loans to clients 50 years ago!   Experience the Andes mountains, the city of Bogotá, and the daily lives of one family navigating hopes, dreams, and borders.   How does one family straddle Colombian and American soil? Engel, a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, expl...