Peter Clarke, an historian, makes the case for Keynes's continued relevance by combining an absorbing narrative of his life with perceptive comments on how that life shaped his views.

ECONOMIST: John Maynard Keynes

While the complexities of family life are described in absorbing detail the arrival of children, the decline of a parent it is Ms Tyler's ability to conjure a character in a few succinct phrases that draws the reader deep into the whirling resentment and misunderstanding that becomes Pauline's and Michael's marriage.

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For a country obsessed with people's life stories, Indians don't write absorbing autobiographies or biographies.

BBC: Vinod Mehta memoir a rare and salacious Indian tell-all

Specialist Sabo picked it up, threw it, and shielded a wounded comrade with his own body -- absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving his comrade's life.

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Specialist Sabo picked it up, threw it, and shielded a wounded comrade with his own body - absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving his comrade's life.

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Like much of America during the Vietnam War, the real-life ballad of John and Yoko had a sharp political edge, which is brought to light in this absorbing documentary by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld.

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