George MacDonald Fraser’s anti-woke antihero is loved by many, writes one fervent fan | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] These action-packed books also really do work as excellent history, writes Lyle (Image: Shutterstock) WHILE Roald Dahl books are having the word ‘fat’ edited out and sensitivity readers and virtue signallers are on hand to scrutinise our every utterance, one of literature’s greatest anti-heroes is still entertaining readers more More...
JFK assassination 60th ‘Obsessed Kennedy predicted his death would be violent’ | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] It was 60 years ago today that CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley died, but news of their deaths were overshadowed by the assassination of President John F Kennedy that very same day of November 22, 1963. JFK’s More...
Phil Tufnell Exclusive: ‘My boozy high-jinks almost put me in a spin’ | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
[ad_1] Phil with England in 1993 (Image: Getty) One night on Jersey in 2004, a grand piano in Phil Tufnell’s hotel trundled along a corridor and plunged down a flight of stairs. It made a noise so loud it More...
Hands off Harry Bosch – Writer Michael Connelly is determined to save his hero | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] Connelly has joined forces with some of the world’s biggest literary names against OpenAI (Image: Netflix) Bestselling crime writer Michael Connelly has revealed his will contains strict instructions More...
George RR Martin confesses Winds of Winter ‘struggles’ that have fans worried | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] It’s been 12 years since George RR Martin last published a novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. Since then the Game of Thrones HBO show has been and gone, with showrunners being forced More...
The top dogs protecting wildlife from poachers | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] It was a repeat of the Windy Ridge tragedy more than a decade ago. Consequently, for the next few weeks I avoided the northern boundary, always changing my movements at the last minute and never repeating More...
Hero Rob Burrow hails MND therapy ‘within 5 years’
[ad_1] Leading scientists are now confident of finding an effective treatment within five years for the brutal degenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This has been made More...
Queen of the Bonkbuster is still tackling the big issues of the day | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] Jilly Cooper knew nothing of football in 2016 (Image: ) But she didn’t start writing the book – saucily titled Tackle! – until five years later. “When I was a cub reporter on the Middlesex More...
My forced adoption left me with a life of trauma | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] Author Liz Harvie (Image: Emma Hardy) But as far back as I can remember, I’ve felt a deep sadness on my birthday because I knew this was the one day of the year when my birth mother must surely think More...
‘My books are about our darkest fears’ – James Patterson reveals inspiration | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] “Fiction writers, we tend to make things up,” he says. “But if you have the president there and you’re writing about a president, that’s wonderful. Because he’ll tell you, ‘This is what the More...
