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Elisabet BrÀnnström, with 20 years' experience, joins Grand Agency as a literary agent in May 2025. She brings expertise from Daniela Schlingmann and Andrew Nurnberg, aiming to expand the agency's offerings.
In an age where narratives often become homogenised, philanthropy can help provide a platform for under-represented voices, offering stories that challenge societal norms, provoke thought, inspire change and create a more empathetic and informed society.
During a 2023 House committee hearing on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said, âthe use of the term intifada in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict is indeed a call for violent armed resistance against the state of Israel, including violence against civilians and the genocide of Jews.â
Apr 01 2025: Rightwing groups around the US are pushing legislation that would place new limits on what books are allowed in school libraries in a move that critics decry as censorship often focused on LGBTQ+ issues or race or imposing conservative social values.
Hall was the sole survivor of a March 2022 blast just outside Kyiv as he, cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian translator-fixer Sasha Kuvshinova were driving away after interviewing soldiers.
She added: âBookshops in the UK and Ireland continue to punch above their weight â over delivering in terms of the value they bring to shopping destination economies, local communities and national creative industries â despite many operating within increasing fine financial margins.
Leavening this downbeat mood is Rawsonâs enduring sense of wonder and her humour, epitomised in her relations with the families of quolls and pademelons that cohabit her property in their unruly âwildâ way, along with the snakes, the fairy wrens, and the microbats that shit in the walls.
Group rights director Tracy Phillips explained: âIn response to declining literacy rates across the world, our customers have been asking us for lower word counts and more highly illustrated books, often in full colour.â
Jo Harkin (Knopf) This Tudor-era historical novel is drawing comparisons to âWolf Hall.â In 1480, John Collan is a peasant boy living in the English countryside when a man from London comes to town and claims that the 10-year-old is actually Lambert Simnel, the son of a duke and the rightful heir to the throne.
Sheâs just trying to bag a promotion, pay for her wedding, and navigate life as a Black woman in a white male-dominated profession.
âAva explores humanityâs relationship with nature and climate catastrophe, blending ecological themes with dystopian messages in a way that feels both intimate and urgent.
Dietary supplements like fatty15 donât have to undergo the same rigorous testing as prescription drugs, but Venn-Watson assures that ânumerous safety studies and two controlled clinical trials have shown no negative side effects.â