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A PROGRAMME to help young people in Chester who can't live at home is celebrating a major milestone. The Bridge Foyer is marking 10 years of Advantaged Thinking, its philosophy that empowers young people to thrive, not just survive. A decade ago, Colin Falconer, then director of innovation at the Foyer Federation, now director of InspireChilli, introduced Advantaged Thinking to the world on the TEDx stage. It has since been central to all the Foyer Federation does, including developing the first quality assurance accreditation for supported housing, national programmes for health and ...

Isle of Wight Radio 6:00pm - Midnight Live and Local Podcast - Supporting Live Local Music On The Isle Of Wight Soul Central Soul Central are a British music production duo consisting of Andy Ward and Paul Timothy, who had a number 6 hit with "String Of Life (Stronger On My Own)" on the UK Singles Chart, released on Defected Records and it also reached number 1 on the UK Dance Chart. The track featured vocals from house veteran, Kathy Brown. The Danny Krivitt re-edit also appeared on the Ministry of Sound compilation album, The Annual 2005. The follow-up single "Need You Now" was an instrum...

Elizabeth Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge, sold world rights to Oh William! to Andy Ward at Random House. The novel, RH said, is about a formerly married couple who are now friends. They watch their children grow up and reckon with their own pasts as they “unearth the kind of long-buried family secret that rearranges everything we think we know about those closest to us.” Strout was represented by Molly Friedrich and Oh William! is slated for October. Putnam Goes ‘Orange’ for Yoon Putnam’s City of Orange by Frankly in Love and the forthcoming Version Ze...

Random House: 384 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In Kosawa, the fictional African village at the heart of Imbolo Mbue’s epic new novel, “How Beautiful We Were,” the children die because the land and water have been poisoned by an American oil company. When some parents protest, they vanish, presumably killed for their efforts. Later, others are tortured, hanged or even gunned down in front of their children. Those who continue to fight for years, even decades, encounter indiffe...

How Beautiful We Were, for some time. She began writing it 17 years ago, long before her debut, Behold the Dreamers, sold to Random House US for a seven-figure advance. She returned to it in 2016, when the US presidential election, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and other alarming news consumed each day. “I just hid in the story. It brought me so much peace and solace,” Mbue says in an interview. “There were months when I didn’t read the news, didn’t watch any TV. I told my friends, please don’t tell me about what is going on. Everything that I was feeling – the pain, the...