Coming up this week...

We're at the end of the third full week in the life of The Political Reader blog - having fun? I do hope so...

Here's what we've got coming up this week:

• Tomorrow (Sunday) we'll be publishing our forth in-depth Sunday Review. This week, the book we'll be focusing on is 'Ed' by James Macintyre and Mehdi Hasan. The first book dedicated to the new Labour leader, this ought to give us an interesting insight into what the future has in store.
• Monday sees the announcement of our next Sunday Review title. Next week's is a fairly snappy read by a familiar face in the world of British politics. Former Times Political Editor is your clue for this week... got it yet?
• By the time Tuesday comes around, TPR will have prepared another Recommends section. For this edition, we'll be recommending some author-specific titles focusing on the author of this week's Sunday Review.
• Wednesday sees the return of the no-longer-controversial Author Profile when we'll be looking in-depth at the prestigious career of the author of this week's Sunday Review title.
• On Thursday the TPR Recommends section returns as we set our sights once again on some of the best books in a field. In advance of tomorrow's focus on the broader divide between Islam and the West that has manifested itself para-militarily in the War on Terror, we'll be considering the best books than understand the key figures involved in those wars - the vultures and hawks of the political and academic neo-conservative movement.
• Friday sees the return of TPR's Short Reads. This week, we'll be looking at 'The Word and the Bomb by Hanif Kureishi. Described as "a collection of Kureishi's most controversial and though-provoking writing on the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values" it should hopefully spark up significant debate on the seminal cultural divide of this Century.
• And finally, on Saturday we do this all again and prepare for the week ahead in the world of The Political Reader.

As it's summer, TPR will leave you with a not-so-political recommendation of some fiction books. TPR has recently become a fan of the writings of Christopher Isherwood. A British author, born in Cheshire, who later became a naturalized American citizen, Isherwood wrote the famous stories of Sally Bowles which formed the basis of Cabaret and also A Single Man on which the 2009 film with Colin Firth was based. And for a political edge, he would later be seen as a key figure in the gay rights movement in America before his death in 1986. For a break from the political, check out some of his works here.