David Herman for the PN review on Walking with the Light by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
David Herman reviews Walking with the Light by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg for PDN Review.
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Alan Gilbey hosts ‘London’s East End – Tales Less Told’ event at Waterstones, Piccadilly tomorrow!
‘Join us for a special theatrical event that will take you by the hand and lead you down the secret side streets of London’s social history, with Bafta-winning writer Alan Gilbey – author of ‘East End Backpassages – an explorers guide.’Myths will be busted and revelations revealed as Alan joins forces with ten other East End historians, writers and performers to present ‘Speed History,’ a storytelling experience like no other. Warning: contains 100 less Jack The Rippers.’
Get to Waterstones tomorrow for the above event – not one to be missed! The event is free and there will be wine for the guests, just book your place here: piccadilly@waterstones.com
Our Chairman on the Conundrum of Climate Change and two Quartet titles on the subject
‘Climate change deniers, whose number is increasing daily, are treated as the lepers of modern times. They are not taken seriously and not given the same access to the media as those who terrorise us by their mumbo jumbo about the doom that awaits the world if we don’t subscribe to their theories, most of which are made up to reflect the validity of their so-called ‘scientific findings’’
Our Chairman blogs about the conundrum of climate change and two Quartet titles on the subject…
Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer and The Age of Global Warming by Rupert Darwall are both available now!
‘J is for Judi’ blog on A Rogues’ Gallery by Peter Lewis
‘Forget the latest blockbuster. You won’t find a better crafted or more entertaining beach read than this.’
Blog J is for Judi on A Rogues’ Gallery by Peter Lewis. Get your copy of the book today!
Austin Mitchell MP’s review of Growing Old by Des Wilson in the House magazine
‘First the bad news. Des Wilson has grown old. Now the good news. The great campaigner, founder of Shelter and PR for the Liberal Party, is still campaigning. Against death his toughest opponent in the long life of struggle the Oomaru kid has waged since he arrived in this country. Des feels in his heart that though his campaigns so far have nearly all been successful, this is one he’ll lose in the end. Yet his book does outline some pretty effective battle plans and reveal several weaknesses in the enemy’s case. So I wouldn’t put money on the outcome. Not just yet anyway.
Our 73 year old hero sets out the terms of the battle, explores his enemy’s weaknesses and his own and brings out the fact that his campaign is a day by day struggle because that’s how old people must live, with each day a triumph over the enemy. He calculates the odds and his prospects of another eleven years of healthy living and concludes that death isn’t the real problem. It’s old age. And that there’s even a possibility that God (wearing a T-shirt and playing golf) is watching the process.
All very interesting to an oldie like me, though it begins sadly with Des’s 70th birthday party surrounded by friends in London. “I don`t look old do I?” he begins his speech. “No” they roar back. He feels fit, healthy, top of the world, but then immediately afterwards realises that he’s crossed an invisible line. The faxes and emails dry up. The invitations stop. No friends come to visit and all the usual excitements fade. “I seemed to vanish from view” Des says. “In my London days I had been in demand. The phone rarely stopped ringing…letters and emails piled up…invitations came by the armful…I was on the inside track…in demand…I was a player. Now…days went by without a phone call…More often than not the letter box was empty. Emails and invitations there were none. If it were not for Spam I would have felt completely abandoned…To sum up, I seemed to be becoming infirm and invisible at the same time.”
A sad and moving transition and one which reached me too late. I read it only after telling a heartbroken Grimsby Labour Party that I’m going to retire at the next election. If only Des’s book had reached me a few days earlier I might have tried to stay on. As it is the only possibility now is to read, learn and thoroughly digest Des’s formula for not going gentle unto that goodnight.’
Austin Mitchell MP’s review of Growing Old: The Last Campaign by Des Wilson. Go here to read our Chairman’s blog post on Des Wilson and Growing Old: The Last Campaign. Get your copy of the book today!
The Literary Review reviews Cold Winter in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
‘ This trilogy (the other volumes are Death in Bordeaux and Dark Summer in Bordeaux) in his late masterpiece, and a more substantial achievement in every way than the casual browser might expect to find on the detective-thriller shelf’
The Literary Review onCold Winter in Bordeaux by Allan Massie. Get your copy here today!
David Rose and Andrew Mountford: Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year
‘But the relentless focus by activist scientists on the Arctic decline does suggest a political imperative rather than a scientific one – and when put together with the story of the US temperature records, it’s hard to avoid the impression that what the public is being told is less than the unvarnished truth. As their credulity is stretched more and more, the public will – quite rightly – treat demands for action with increasing caution…’
Andrew Mountford on the truth about global warming. He and David Rose discuss new discoveries about the Antarctic in The Mail on Sunday.
Quartet Books have published two of the most revolutionary books in global warming skepticism:
Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer £25 is available now…
It will ‘change forever the way we think about climate change’ The Spectator
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The Age of Global Warming: A History by Rupert Darwall £25 (HB) £15 (PB) is also available now…
‘A total masterpiece’ James Delingpole
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Glamour Magazine review Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent
‘Perfect sun lounger fodder’
Glamour Magazine reviews Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent. Get your copy here today!
Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent in John Sandoe bookshop
Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent has hit the shops and Tatler! It is one of Tatler’s top summer reads… Get your copy here today!
Tatler gives a fantastic review of Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent
‘A riotous debut thriller from a former Tatler scribe that holds a mirror up to high (in every sense) society’ Tatler Magazine reviews Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent. You can get your copy of the book here today!
Pictures from the launch of Simspon and I by Oggy Boytchev
Last week we launched Simpson and I: Between Two Worlds by Oggy Boytchev. It was a fantastic evening at the Osborne Studio Gallery, with speeches from Oggy and our chairman Naim Attallah. Get your copy of the book here today!