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A Snake Among Swans by Hannah Kaner

A Snake Among Swans by Hannah Kaner

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tuathilde of Ardwen is twenty years old, five of her nation’s six clanlands are already under a foreign flag, and she walks into the conqueror’s hall to offer herself as his second wife. She is carrying a plan involving a knife. Her mother takes the plan apart in one sentence: cutting the head off a swan is not vengeance while the poison keeps seeping out of it, and what is needed here is not a hunt but a massacre. A Snake Among Swans by Hannah Kaner spends five hundred pages on what it costs to follow that instruction, and the running total is the most gripping thing in the book. The Thread Running Through A Snake Among Swans Every single thing in this novel has a price, and Kaner makes you watch it being paid. The forest sells power for memory and pain. The Cynghal royal house has its own magic, distilled under a shaded moon, that buys obedience rather than bartering for it. The court runs on precisely the same arithmetic: a title costs …

Reliquary by Hannah Whitten – A Book Review by The Bookish Elf

Reliquary by Hannah Whitten – A Book Review by The Bookish Elf

Published by Jenni Sidey

Elias died on a Tuesday, and the aneurysm that killed him is shaped like tentacles on the scan. That is page four of Reliquary by Hannah Whitten, and the neurologist’s actual worry is not the tentacles. It is the older lesions scattered through the rest of the brain, scarring that has been there since childhood, damage a man should not have been walking around with. Claire Sutherland, twenty-six and about to be twenty-seven, cannot help him. She and her fiance never really talked about their childhoods. Four Days, Four Stations A week later, a handwritten note arrives on gilt-edged paper. The Ashburys, whom Claire has never met in five years of being engaged to their son, would love her to come to Harrow Point, the family home on a private island off the coast of Maine, from the fourth of May to the seventh, to celebrate Elias’s life. They send a jet. Elias’s mother takes her shopping at Saks and calls her ma fille. They throw her a birthday party in a house whose grand …

Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Published by Jenni Sidey

Most workplace comedies end when somebody quits. This one ends when the workplace itself is put on notice, and the notice comes from the universe. The fourth Villain book, Adversary to the Villain, asks a question the series has been dodging with cake and severed heads for three volumes: what happens when the sunshine assistant is the one the prophecy warns about? A quick housekeeping note before anything else: this is book four, and its premise is built directly on the revelation that closed the previous novel. If you are not caught up, stop here, because even a careful summary gives that game away. Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer opens with Evie Sage and Trystan Maverine living inside the wreckage of everything they thought they knew about themselves, while King Benedict plasters the kingdom with WANTED flyers and a curse deadline ticks toward Hallows’ Eve. The stakes are the biggest the series has attempted. The jokes, mercifully, have not gotten the memo. An Office Comedy Wearing Epic Fantasy Armor Maehrer’s signature trick …

Hannah Critchlow and Alfredo Carpineti

Hannah Critchlow and Alfredo Carpineti

Published by Sam Flores

Humanists UK is delighted to announce the appointment of two new patrons, neuroscientist Dr Hannah Critchlow and astrophysicist Dr Alfredo Carpineti. They join more than 200 Humanists UK patrons with notable careers in arts, literature, science, academia, politics, and community and civic activism. Dr Hannah Critchlow is an internationally acclaimed neuroscientist, broadcaster, and author. A Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, her expertise spans consciousness, learning and memory, decision-making, intelligence, collaboration between minds, and our relationship with AI.. In 2026, she was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Medal for her outstanding work in science communication, following previous recognition by Nature as a ‘Rising Star in Life Sciences’ and by the UK Science Council as a ‘Top 100 UK scientist’. Her best-selling books include the Sunday Times bestselling The Science of Fate as well as Joined-up Thinking which was met with critical acclaim. Dr Alfredo Carpineti is an Italian astrophysicist, science journalist, and social activist. As the Senior Staff Writer & Space Correspondent for IFLScience, he has authored over 6,000 articles, bringing complex scientific concepts to …

A ‘Hannah Montana’ themed Airbnb is now available for rent to fulfill Millennial dreams

A ‘Hannah Montana’ themed Airbnb is now available for rent to fulfill Millennial dreams

Published by Daniella Wilson

“Sweet niblets!” Fans of the hit Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana” now have a rock star opportunity to live like Miley Stewart, as the iconic Malibu beach house that helped make Miley Cyrus a household name is coming to Airbnb this spring. In honor of the show’s 20th anniversary, marked by a Disney+ special this week, Airbnb and Disney are teaming up to turn the oceanfront property used for the Stewart family’s exterior shots into a fully immersive rental experience, packed with nods to the series’ memorable moments. The stays are free, though travelers must cover their own transportation to California. The booking period, which kicked off Thursday at 9 a.m. ET, has sold out. Lucky fans who snagged a booking will stay in a four-bedroom, five-bath Malibu mansion with five beds during one of 10 one-night stays from April 6 to April 16, complete with stunning ocean views. The Airbnb rental includes Hannah Montana’s famous rotating closet, as seen in the hit Disney Channel show (Airbnb) The Malibu beach house was used for exterior shots …

Hannah Fry: ‘AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts’

Hannah Fry: ‘AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts’

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The chances are that you think about artificial intelligence far more today than you did five years ago. Since ChatGPT was launched in November 2022, we have become accustomed to interacting with AIs in most spheres of life, from chatbots and smart home tech to banking and healthcare. But such rapid change brings unexpected problems – as mathematician and broadcaster Hannah Fry shows in AI Confidential With Hannah Fry, a new three-part BBC documentary in which she talks to people whose lives have been transformed by the technology. She spoke to New Scientist about how we should view AI, its role in modern mathematics – and why it will upend the global economy. Bethan Ackerley: In the show, you explore what AI is doing to our relationships and sense of reality. Some of this stems from “AI sycophancy” – the idea that these tools give us what we want to hear, not what we need to hear. How does this happen? Hannah Fry: Earlier models were extremely sycophantic. Everything you would write, they would be …

Dree Hemingway Wrote Daryl Hannah Before Playing Her

Dree Hemingway Wrote Daryl Hannah Before Playing Her

Published by Daniella Wilson

Nina Jacobson has a rule for producing content that features characters inspired by real life subjects. “Generally speaking, we don’t engage with the people who are public figures, because you end up either feeling obligated to honor something that they ask you, ‘Please portray me this way, but not that way,’ or you feel that, that you’re having competing versions,” the veteran producer just told The Hollywood Reporter during an interview about her latest project, Ryan Murphy and Connor Hines’ Love Story. “When you take more of a research posture as opposed to a personal interview position, we have found that you get a more dimensional view, even though you are missing the chance to talk to the people themselves.” The FX series, Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, digs deep into the lore of the iconic ’90s power couple and features many real life characters including members of the Kennedy clan like Caroline, Jackie and Ted to boldfaced names like Calvin Klein, Michael Bergin and onetime JFK Jr. girlfriend Daryl Hannah, …