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The Croc Trough Pumping System is a solar pumping system that is added to livestock water troughs. After five years of self-funded research to improve...

Sunny Days and Sea Breezes by Carole Matthews - A gorgeous relationship tale that encourages a lovely bond to form with the leading character and allows a proper escape to the Isle of Wight. The Bread The Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini - An extraordinary Trinidad-set story of abuse and the seeds of survival voiced by an unforgettable woman whose experiences and endurance sear the soul. Crossing The Line by John Sutherland - A fascinating and inspiring invitation to walk with a retired, highly respected senior police officer, and witness the scenes behind the blue and white cordon tap...

30th April 2020 by George Orwell and Fatherhood: Part One The most important influence on George Orwell was probably his father. This essay, then, explores the crucial theme of fatherhood in a number of contrasting ways. It first examines the responses of both Orwell and his contemporaries to his father. It then looks at the many fascinating representations of fathers in his novels. Orwell’s own strikingly progressive attitudes as a dad are highlighted as are, finally, the responses of his son, Richard Blair, to having the celebrated author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a father. Richard Wal...

Long Read: Jeffrey Archer reveals why he can't write a book about Dubai Samhita Chakraborty Lord Jeffrey Archer Over an intensely personal yet free-wheeling tête-à-tête, Lord Jeffrey Archer talks of his new book written during the pandemic, his views on the Emirates Lit Fest and much more The first time I met Lord Jeffrey Archer was when I was a young reporter, quite unbelieving of my luck that the man who wrote Kane and Abel and Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less and all those really smart short stories with a twist in the tale was actually coming to India and I had been picked to intervi...

Modern biography can be said to have begun with John Gibson Lockhart's "Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart" in 1838. But Scott - the 'Great Unknown' - has always presented challenges to the biographer. Layers of myth (much of it manufactured by the faithful son-in-law Lockhart) continues to protect him from posterity. There is also the sheer size of Scott's achievements as poet, novelist, man of letters, and self-made Laird of Abbotsford. The two standard lives - Lockhart's, and Edgar Johnson's published in 1970 - run to some three-quarters of a million words apiece. Finally, there...