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Culture News
MUSIC
PAUL
MCCARTNEY -
EGYPT STATION
Paul McCartney
hasn’t released a
new album since
2013’s New, but
it looks like the
wait will be well
worth it. On his
latest album, he worked with producer Greg Kurstin, who helped both Beck and Adele win Grammys. Egypt Station is a mix of McCartney’s signature sounds throughout his decades-long career, including instrumental, acoustic and, of course, pop and rock.
CHER –
DANCING QUEEN After Cher shot scenes for Mamma Mia! Here We
Go Again, she
was inspired to release an album covering ABBA’s music. With 10 tracks, including “Mamma Mia,” “Waterloo” and
“SOS,” this album will take you back to the age of disco.
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD –
CRY PRETTY
Ever since she won
the fourth season
of American Idol,
Carrie Underwood
has been a force to
be reckoned with.
Her sixth studio
album, Cry Pretty,
has been preceded
in April by a single
of the same name, which became her first single to top the Digital Songs chart. Underwood
has said of the album that “It’s emotional, it’s soulful, it’s real, and we also have some fun on there too.”
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BOOKS
THE PROPOSAL
Public proposals always make people feel warm inside, but what happens when it doesn’t go well? This novel by Jasmine Guillory follows a writer whose actor boyfriend proposes to her during a baseball game, and shows how she is forced to deal
with the social media repercussions after she turns him down and is rushed away by another fan at the game. Unfortunately for her she finds herself smack dab in the middle of another meaningless fling with her saviour afterwards, and has to find a way to slow things down.
TIMES CONVERT
Deborah Harkness’
latest novel is set in contemporary Paris
and London, and in
the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. It focuses on
a young surgeon
who seizes upon the
opportunity to become a
vampire, only to discover
it’s not as easy a life as
he was promised. Even in the present, when he attempts to transform the love of his life into a vampire, he discovers challenges that complicate their lives.
THE BOY AT THE KEYHOLE
This debut novel by Stephen Giles follows the story of a boy left alone with his housekeeper whom he believes has murdered his mother. Although there is no proof that his mother is dead, he has only heard from her sporadically through
postcards since she went away and has heard rumours throughout town that something sinister has happened to her.