it's like playing in maugham by all at chennai, we play a practice game, it was like playing in maughamy spinner. we don't want to take anyone lightly. any of those fast bowlers. it will be a challenge and focus on our bowlers. it will be a challenge and focus on our games. nba superstar lebron james made his first public appearance on monday since leaving cleveland cavaliers to join la lakers with whom he's signed a four—year contract worth $150 million. james, who's played in eight successive nba finals, winning three of them, was back in his home town of akron in ohio, to open his new school — the i promise school, for underprivileged children. i was part of the school system from the eighth grade and ijust want to say, thank you to your support. but also to these kids, you guys are unbelievable, thank you so much. i see all of you guys, all over, thank you so much. you all played a real huge part on this becoming possible. i love you too. i really do. i really do. and no matter of fun playing in los angeles or not, akron, ohio is always home for me, always. former heavyweight world

the studio with me is author fiona mozley who is one of the very recent recipients of the somerset maughamjust down the road and i have arrived here within the last five minutes. congratulations. the death of the hardback has congratulations. the death of the hard back has been congratulations. the death of the hardback has been predicted since about the 1990s and maybe even more but yet we have this resurgence. what has happened? i think people are fed up of their whole lives being mediated by screams. i spend a lot of my time on my phone and on the computer and i watch tv as we all do and! the computer and i watch tv as we all do and i think there is something really nice about sitting away from those electronic devices and sitting with a book. it is nice to have the physical copy that you can put on your shelf at the end. the history of our lives is written on our book shelves in a way and i have a book shelf that goes back to when i was a child and it is a nice things to remember those reading experiences. it seems that publishers have made an effort to make books look more beautiful.”