The worst choice you have to make in life is the decision to save your loved ones by asking them to leave you behind to face death alone. That was the choice that Abeer Harkali made in order to save…
A year after the Costa book awards ended, high-street coffee rival Caffè Nero is launching a set of awards celebrating children’s books, debut fiction, fiction and nonfiction. Unlike the Costa Awards, there will be no poetry prize at the inaugural…
TikTok has announced its first-ever Book Awards for 2023, celebrating all things literature that has captivated the social media platform. With the rise of the BookTok hashtag and a spate of authors, readers and fans making the rounds on the…
The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 by Atlantic Books (UK) and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The White Tiger is the story of…
Author: Ahmed Masoud Publishing house: Oberon Books “The Shroud Maker” play by author and director Ahmed Masoud tells the story of an 84-year-old woman who sells shrouds for the dead in order to survive. It’s a black comedy on the…
Summer is over and children are back at school in some form or other and as everyone settles back into the school term, it is important to remind parents that they must keep their children’s literary knowledge up to a…
Since the revolution-turned-civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced, it’s a conflict that is beyond the understanding of adults and has divided people, yet it…
Syria has opened the country’s first café staffed by people with Down syndrome, located in Tishreen Park in the capital Damascus. The café, Sucette, is run by 20 people with Down syndrome, according to the Xinhua news agency, and is the result…
On September 9, 1828, writer Leo Tolstoy was born at his family’s estate, Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula Province of Russia. In the 1860s, Leo Tolstoy wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, followed by ‘Anna Karenina’….
Quite often fictional characters are the ‘teacher’ that us the reader have, to help us learn about a particular topic and although we know they are not real but they remain our source of information and an effective element in…