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Author Rick Tabor in his study, in front of bookshelves

Rick Tabor's Sci-Fi Political Thriller The Blink of Humanity Explores the Dire Cost of Political Corruption

Darie Nani··1 min read

The Blink of Humanity follows a bioengineer with epilepsy and her robot companion as they set out to bring a corrupt US president to justice after a nuclear attack on Chicago.

Chris Scharff, author of Memories: My Life Story

Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir

Darie Nani··1 min read

Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.

Elizabeth M. Lykins, author and spiritual coach

Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness

Darie Nani··1 min read

An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.

Joseph Howse (second from left) on the literary fiction panel at the 2026 Kingsmead Book Fair in Johannesburg with Michiel Heyns, Sven Axelrad and Shakti Pillay

Joseph Howse's Soviet-Era Novel The Circus and the Atom Wins World Literature and Audiobook Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award

Darie Nani··1 min read

The Nova Scotia author's second book, set in Kiev over the New Year of 1988 into 1989, also took a Distinguished Favorite for its cover, while his debut The Girl in the Water was honoured for its audiobook. The Next Year's Snow series has now sold to more than 80 public library systems in seven countries.

Cover of By Any Other Name by Neva Rose against a blurred autumn woodland background

Neva Rose's Debut Novel By Any Other Name Traces Family Secrets Back to a Crossed-Out Surname

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

After 40 years in nursing, the Houston author retired in 2021 and turned years of late-night notes and family stories into the story of Rachel, whose mother wrote a different name on her birth certificate.

Older man in glasses reading a letter at a desk in a book-lined study, typewriter and open books beside him

Authors Are Opening Their Anthropic Settlement Notices and Finding Smaller Payments Than They Counted On

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Much of the shortfall traces to a split with publishers and to old disputes over who holds the rights, and the Authors Guild says most of it can still be corrected.

End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, Allen Lane hardback cover

End Times Fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Map a Far Right Preparing to Survive the Collapse It Is Causing

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Out on 15 September from Allen Lane, the book grows a 5,000-word Guardian essay into a 384-page argument that Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley accelerationists and border-hardening governments now share one belief, that a cataclysm is coming and only a deserving few need saving from it, and answers with a politics of staying put.

John Bissell, PhD, author of The Power of Negative Thinking: A Practical Guide to the Strength Doubt and Worry Can Give You

John Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland

Darie Nani··1 min read

The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.

Judy K. Herman, LPC-MHSP, NCC, psychotherapist and founder of Relationship Wellness, LLC, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Tennessee Psychotherapist Judy K. Herman on Caregiver Burnout After Dolly Parton's Passing

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Four days before she passed away, Parton said she was dealing with health issues she "just didn't pay attention to" while watching over Carl Dean. The Chattanooga relationship therapist, 20 years in practice, sees the same pattern most often in high-achieving women, and teaches a 90-second breathing practice to interrupt it.

The Porch Light I Leave On by Vivi Tran, cover art on an amber dusk background

Vivi Tran's Vietnam War Novel The Porch Light I Leave On Began at Her Memoir's Book Signings

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The author's new novel, continuing Where the Leaves Fall, follows Tim, a veteran struggling with PTSD and the effects of Agent Orange, and Kate, the Vietnamese refugee his family sponsors.

Author Paul Rushworth-Brown with his father Jimmy Brown at the Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales

Outback Odyssey Review: The Yorkshire Orphan Who Asked to Be Taught the Land

Darie Nani··1 min read

Paul Rushworth-Brown's post-war migrant novel sends a Yorkshire orphan by ship to a Gippsland sheep station, and its opening chapters are the author's own father's story.

Lisa F. Crites holding her memoir Beautifully Unbroken

Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.