![]() This is the beginning of one of my favorite series of all time, but for some reason I never wrote a review for it. He has just released a new book called Summerhouse Land in a very limited run of hardbacks. ![]() Roderick followed Tunnels with further books in the series, Deeper, Freefall, Closer, Spiral and, finally, Terminal in 2013. Shortly after publication the film rights were purchased by US-based Relativity Media, and Mikael Håfström has been appointed as director. After intense media interest around its launch, Tunnels was published in almost forty countries and was a New York Times Bestseller, achieving sales of more than a million copies worldwide. Following a period of editing, Barry republished it as Tunnels in July 2007. ![]() He genuinely thought this was all that the future held for him until he was made redundant in 2001.īut Roderick surprised himself by working on a book with help from an old university friend and, in 2005, he self-published it as The Highfield Mole, which caught the attention of Barry Cunningham, founder of Chicken House, a publisher of children’s books. After graduating without the faintest idea what he wanted to do for the rest of his life, he spent some time in the wilderness when he played in a few bands, then somehow fell into a job doing corporate finance for an investment bank in the City of London. Born in 1960, he grew up in Highgate, North London, and eventually went to University College where he dabbled in genetics and listened to Joy Division. ![]() Roderick Gordon is the author of the Tunnels series of books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A unitary state since the 10th century, its borders have effectively been unchanged since the 11th. The history of England, the kingdom founded by Æthelstan, is familiar. The union of Edith and Otto brought together two realms destined for very different things. It was, for any Christian king, the ultimate promotion. Sure enough, within seven years he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in Rome. After becoming king in 936, he won a victory over a vast invading force of Hungarians so decisive that his troops, standing on the battlefield amid the tangle of corpses and banners, hailed him “emperor”. Edith was the half-sister of Æthelstan who, only two years previously, had won for himself the rule of all the English-speaking peoples of Britain, and thereby attracted the admiration of the most eligible bachelor in Christendom: Otto.įearless, charismatic and intimidatingly hairy, Otto was as peerless a warrior as he was formidable an overlord, heir to a vast agglomeration of territories that stretched from Frisia to Bavaria. In 929, one of Alfred the Great’s numerous granddaughters travelled to Saxony. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Holland welcomes a definitive study of the amorphous state that lasted a thousand years ![]() ![]() ![]() It was his plan that was eventually used to partition the country when the option of retaining a united country ran out. Such was his utility, brilliance and efficiency that he went on to head the reforms department and later the states ministry. ![]() Menon worked with several viceroys and even though some ignored him initially, he made a mark and proved his indispensability eventually. His partner, Kanakam, was five years older than him and had a daughter. He entered into a live-in relationship with the widowed wife of his senior in service after his marriage failed and his wife disappeared, leaving two sons. Though Menon comes across as a boring person, obsessed only with his work and how to move up the ladder, his personal life has interesting aspects considering the times he lived in. The story of Menon is interspersed with the story of India’s independence and the period after it, as also the stories of Nehru, Patel, Mountbatten, etc. ![]() Basu deals with this challenge very well. ![]() Writing biographies of popular, multi-faceted personalities isn’t much of a challenge, but to write the life story of a bureaucrat who led a life mostly buried in files and drafts can be challenging. Meet Princess Esra Birgen, wife of the late Mukarram Jah Know about her life, assets, and more ![]() ![]() This novel will keep readers on the edge of their seats until its most extraordinary and unexpected conclusion, and will stay with them long after they’ve turned the last page. The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will-from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. ![]() He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. ![]() It depicts a relationship between two soldiers, Tristan Sadler and Will Bancroft, the latter of whom gravitates. ![]() It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.īut the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. The Absolutist is another wartime story, but this time it's the first world war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early Middle Ages-all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future. And she is indispensable-unless she should ever lead the king astray. Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king's seer. Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby.īut now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world-of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen next-that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. Hild is the king's youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. A new religion is coming ashore the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. ![]() ![]() The award-winning author Nicola Griffith's brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following his success with The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck went on to publish other notable works, including the 1952 novel, East of Eden. In 1939, Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, which garnered him significant critical acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. The most famous of these is arguably 1937’s Of Mice and Men. In the following years, Steinbeck wrote several novels that focus on farming life and its difficulties. ![]() In 1935, Steinbeck first found literary success with Tortilla Flat, which follows the exploits of a group of Mexican-Americans in Monterey, California. During this time he tried his hand at a career in writing, but had trouble getting his work published and so returned to California to work a series of labor jobs. He attended Stanford University in 1919, though he left without earning a degree six years later, at which point he worked as a journalist and manual laborer in New York City. John Steinbeck was born in California only two years after the turn of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The movie takes place in November of 1327, deep in the late Middle Ages, where the Franciscan brother William of Baskerville has the tough job of debating a group of Benedictine monks, fellow Franciscan brothers, and delegates of the Pope in Avignon. It was this bestseller through which Eco became a famous writer. French director Jean-Jacques Annaud took the challenge of adapting it to film. The book of more than five hundred pages was released in 1980. Eco was born in 1932 Alessandria and died recently in Milan in 2016. Il nome della rosa, better known as The Name of the Rose, is the masterpiece of Italian writer Umberto Eco. 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Setting the Stage for a Conversation About Suicidality in Our Patients ![]() In this paper, we will review the epidemiological data relating to suicide, discuss how to respond to suicidal ideation and behavior in a variety of clinical settings, highlight the ethical challenges related to confidentiality and mandatory reporting, and address ways to handle personal feelings and reactions when dealing with suicidal intent or death by suicide in one’s patients. It is essential therefore for clinicians in every discipline to be equipped with practical recommendations for dealing with a suicidal MS patient, whether they work as part of a team in an MS comprehensive care setting or as a practitioner in a solo or group practice. ![]() Depression, one of the most common symptoms of MS, increases the risk of suicidal ideation and death by suicide in this population. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, immune-mediated disease that affects the white and gray matter in the central nervous system, causing a wide range of unpredictable and often disabling physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms. ![]() ![]() On a grander scale, there is a clear sense of respect for the natural world, with “green” practices very much the norm. This society having people whose very lives are dedicated to bringing such comfort to others is emblematic of the overall tone established by Chambers: one of warmth, kindness, and hope. The role of a tea monk is such a lovely concept in and of itself a charming play on the very real notion that a good cup of tea and a chance to offload can make everything seem better. ![]() Together, they wrestle with ideas of identity, purpose, and connection. Here, they become one of the first people for centuries to encounter one of the many robots who, upon gaining consciousness, chose to leave human civilisation and live free in the wild. One day, craving solitude, adventure, and a break from routine, Dex heads into the untouched wilderness. ![]() Despite being good at their job and relatively content with life, Dex comes to wonder if it’s enough. In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, we follow Dex, a tea monk whose vocation requires them to travel Panga (the moon they call home), providing those who need it with an impartial ear, words of comfort, and custom blends of tea. Thankfully, reading this confirmed that belief was well founded Becky Chambers is one of those authors whose books are so adored, I was convinced I’d love her work even before I had tried any of it for myself. ![]() ![]() Shtrum is a brilliant nuclear physicist who faces rising anti-Semitism in Moscow while his relatives navigate the threat of camps and prisons on both the Soviet and the Nazi sides. The sprawling plot follows the travails of the extended family of Viktor Shtrum along the vast eastern front of the war. ![]() to be published, Vasily Grossman's novel is an unsparing story of ordinary Russians tragically caught between the fascism of the invading Nazis and the oppression of their own Soviet government. ![]() This panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as "the Tolstoy of the USSR." Suppressed by the KGB and years later smuggled out of the Soviet Union. Life and Fate: Introduction by Polly Jones ![]() |