It's been an exciting week at the press. We're getting ready for the release of CrimeBits, and we've had two BSPG authors featured in two exciting spotlights!
Author of our upcoming release Taylor Swift: The Story of Us, Caitlin Robson was featured live on BBC Radio Upload with Raffaella Coleman last night talking about her new book and sharing about her experiences as a Taylor fan. Click this LINK to listen to her feature! Her segment starts at 40:00.
Loving Strangers, one of our newest releases has received another excellent review; this time from Karen E. H Skinazi, writing for the Jewish Journal. She is an Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol.
In the last section, Prosser draws some conclusions from his family’s stories, compiled in this memoir. He begins to realize that Jewishness did not lie dormant, waiting for the return to homeland, for over two thousand years of diaspora; it was made in that crucible. His family’s Jewishness was forged among strangers (some loving, some not) in Babylon, Syria, Iraq, India, Singapore—and in England, where Prosser lives, a member of a synagogue in York, which last year got its first rabbi in 800 years (after the massacre in 1190, rabbis placed a herem on the city, long observed). It’s not an anti-Zionist screed, but more of a gentle reminder that many families, like Prosser’s, are about “celebrating and singing the distances, rather than mourning home and seeking singularity.”
This is a snippet of the end of her review, you can read the whole thing at this link -Jewish History Inside the Camphorwood Chest: Jay Prosser’s “Loving Strangers”
We love it when our authors are given platforms to celebrate their work! Happy reading!