Clooney’s ‘Boys In The Boat’ misses British Olympic triumph | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] Clooney’s ‘Boys In The Boat’ misses British Olympic triumph (Image: Getty) Exclusive – It’s the Chariots of Fire-style true story of a scrappy working class team of rowers from Washington state who beat posh and privileged Ivy League university rivals to qualify for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where they overcame More...
James Bond is set to enter public domain – What this means for next 007 future | Films | Entertainment
[ad_1] Fleming’s first Bond novel Casino Royale had a 1967 unofficial spoof movie starring David Niven before EON won back the rights in 1999, ahead of Daniel Craig’s debut in 2006. Similarly, Thunderball More...
Game of Thrones fans hoping for Winds of Winter despair at George RR Martin post | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] As 2024 dawns so do 13 years since George RR Martin published a book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Since A Dance with Dragons hit shelves in 2011, the Game of Thrones TV show has come and gone More...
Ian Fleming’s unprecedented James Bond rights deal just before his death | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] This year James Bond fans celebrated the 70th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s original 007 novels. Yet the author famously only wrote 12 novels and two collections of short stories about his MI6 spy. In More...
Martin Brunt on his new book and life as the Sky News crime correspondent | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] Hatton Garden: Ring leader behind heist jailed for 10 years Journalists should probably always contact the police when seeking a criminal case update. Well, in most cases, perhaps. Let me explain. Over More...
Patrick Hamilton – the forgotten English writer who invented ‘gaslighting’ | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] The growing influence of the phrase is a tribute to the vivid imagination of Patrick Hamilton (Image: Getty) Gas has all but disappeared from our lives as a method of lighting. Yet this outmoded technology, More...
Facing ‘rust out’? Try ‘bed rotting’ and you’ll soon be ‘rizz’ again
[ad_1] Just when you’ve sorted your ‘gassed’ from ‘gaslighting’, along comes a new set of vocabulary to baffle. ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD reveals the new words from this year… [ad_2] Source More...
Richard Armitage on his latest Dickensian venture – EXCLUSIVE | UK | News
[ad_1] ‘Dickens loved home, hearth and Christmas’ says Richard Armitage. (Image: Getty) Having played Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s smash-hit Hobbit trilogy with a powerful northern accent, More...
The Life And Lies Of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly – Dickens revised in new biography | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] As this fascinating book reveals, we don’t actually know the truth at all. Much of what we think we know is based on an authorised biography by John Forster published in 1871. Fair enough you might More...
New book debunks claim of Admiral Lord Nelson’s support of slave trade | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] A Letter which had been used to show that Admiral Lord Nelson backed the slave trade is a fake, according to the author of a new book. Chris Brett, chairman of the Nelson Society, argues it was the work More...
