Written by Samantha Harvey very nearly gave up on her novel Orbital, which last night won this year’s Booker prize. Set on the International Space Station (ISS) 250 miles from Earth, Orbital follows the day-to-day lives of four astronauts and two cosmonauts as they hurtle through the universe at 17,500mph. She was a few thousand words in […]
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital, the first book set in space to win the prize. Orbital contemplates the world from a different viewpoint as it follows a team of astronauts in the International Space Station. It’s the biggest-selling book on the shortlist in the UK, […]
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Butcher Babies is back with their first new single since vocalist Carla Harvey left the band, “Sincerity”. The single is also Butcher Babies‘ first new music via Judge & Jury Records, a company founded by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Seether, Skillet, Of Mice & Men) and Neil Sanderson of Three Days Grace. As for […]
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose alleged sexual misconduct fueled the #MeToo movement, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and will undergo treatment in prison at Rikers Island in New York. What do you think? “That’s gotta help break up the monotony of prison.” Spencer Dumael, Cake Froster “I wish him a speedy metastasis.” […]
NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges, a prosecutor said on Thursday, as the Manhattan district attorney’s office prepares to retry the former movie mogul following the reversal of his rape conviction. Jurors in Manhattan found Weinstein, 72, guilty on rape charges in 2020, but the New York Court of Appeals threw out […]