Headquartered in London, UK, Aviva is the 6th-largest insurance company in the world. It is a leading provider of life insurance and pension products in Europe (including the UK) and elsewhere in the world. As at August 2010, Aviva had over 53 million customers in 28 countries. If you’re on the hunt for insurance, pension/retirement [...]
Continue reading...29. November 2011
The quote from that great novel of economic migration, The Grapes of Wrath at the beginning of Rose Tremain’s The Road Home, can leave us in little doubt as to her intensions with this sympathetic, timely story of Lev, an Eastern European and who travels to London. A middle-aged widower with a young daughter and [...]
Continue reading...20. November 2011
Title: The Social Network Written by: Aaron Sorkin Directed by: David Fincher Starring: Jess Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song Reviewed by: S.I. The Social Network might be remembered as a film that came out too early. Its real-life drama is still ongoing. The film’s drama centre sod Facebook’s founding and the Internet revolution [...]
Continue reading...10. November 2011
Title: Vixen by Jillian Larkin Random House: Delacorte Press, 421 pages, 2010. Reviewed by: S.I. Jillian Larkin’s Vixen is the first novel in The Flapper series, a young adult series set during the Roaring Twenties. The novel is akin to the Luxe and Bright Young Things series by Anna Godbersen, and though it’s Larkin’s debut, [...]
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14. December 2011
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