Malcolm Brabant is a larger-than-life figure in the worlds of filmmaking, war and medicine. In 2011, he had a routine yellow fever shot at a clinic near his home in Athens where he was then living as a foreign correspondent. He was due to travel to the Ivory Coast in West Africa to shoot a […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Mark Everglade
How much does fiction act as a safety release to the pressures building up inside us? How much to stories help in dealing with trauma and upheaval? In its continual search for the new, fun and unexpected, Goldster Inside story brings you Mark Everglade, author of dystopian fiction and an expert in the sub-genre […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Orphan X series — Evan Smoak is a man with a dangerous past who has skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. Gregg has also published poetry, academic, political, and cultural articles, screenplays and is a bestselling comic book […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Michael Coveney
Michael Coveney has written about theatre as editor of Plays and Players magazine and staff critic, successively, on the Financial Times, the Observer and the Daily Mail. His books include The Citz; The Aisle is Full of Noises; Questors, Jesters and Renegades and critical biographies of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mike Leigh, Ken Campbell and Maggie Smith. His latest work […]
Read MoreLDEG – Meet Leonid Volkov, leading Russian Opposition leader
Born into Soviet Jewish intelligentsia, Leonid is now in exile in Lithuania. Through lawyers, he liaises with one of Russia’s most prominent political prisoners, his friend Alexei Navalny who is serving nine years in a maximum-security prison. Leonid was Navalny’s chief-of-staff for his Moscow mayoral campaign in 2013 and his presidential campaign against Vladimir Putin […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Maxim Jakubowski
What do Erotica and Sherlock Holmes have in common? Find out in Goldster’s amazing end of year Inside Story with the legendary Maxim Jakubowski, the mastermind of The Mammoth Book of Erotica, the creator of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the compiler of numerous anthologies and currently chair of the Crime Writers’ Association with its Red Herrings […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Sir Muir Gray
Professor Sir Muir Gray is reframing the public conversation about getting old. He is the co-author of two hilarious but insightful books aptly named Sod 60 and Sod 70, both subtitled, The Guide to Living Well. . His other books include Midlife: Look Younger, Live Longer, Feel Better, Antidote to Ageing and Sod Sitting, Get Moving!: Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond. No […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Alex Shaw
Alex Shaw is an international best-selling author of the AIDAN SNOW and JACK TATE thrillers, stories rich with material drawn from his adventures and travelling. He spent the second half of the 1990s in Ukraine teaching drama and running his own business consultancy before being head-hunted for a division of Siemens. That job set him […]
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