Readings@Seksan's drew its biggest ever crowd this Saturday and it was standing room only! And the audience seemed a lot more ......

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Mr. Massingberd was a celebrated former obituaries editor of The Daily Telegraph of London who made a once-dreary page required reading...

Continue Reading Hugh Massingberd, 60, Laureate for the Departed, Dies

Andrew Leci is interviewed by Anu Nathan in Starmag's ReadsMonthly supplement about his first novel Once Removed.Now Andrew is a bloke I feel I know very well, even if I have nev...

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I really enjoyed interviewing David Davidar in Singapore recently. (The piece appears today in Starmag's Reads Monthly supplement.)The interview just turned into a lovely chat about ...

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“Like all CIA employees in the Directorate of Operations (DO), I had a Top Secret clearance, which meant that I was cleared to see...

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In this Spanish novel, a war photographer confronts the morality of his work.

Vance Packard’s 1957 book showed how sinister advertising techniques were being imported into politics.

How the old Hollywood studio system discovered, refurbished, sold and sold out its most glamorous commodities.

Andrew Lycett’s biography and a new collection of letters remind readers that Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to be remembered for more...

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