The greatest mystery of all: Who was the real Agatha Christie, according to her biographer
The Miss Marple creator had a reputation for being as tricky as she was successful but, as her biographer Lucy Worsley came to discover, depression, betrayal and crippling nightmares dogged her life and helped inspire some of her stories. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Life’s no laughing matter: Lenny Henry’s Rising To The Surface book
AT THE end of his first volume of memoirs – Who Am I, Again? – we left Lenny Henry in the late 1970s, having found fame on anarchic children’s TV show Tiswas while still a teenager. Daily Express More...
House of the Dragon timeline spoilers: Major deaths, marriages and more in Fire and Blood
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, the Game of Thrones prequel, adapts the Dance of the Dragons chapters of George RR Martin’s Fire & Blood, a three hundred year fictional history of House Targaryen’s rule on More...
The Ukrainians who came as refugees but stay as friends
WHEN a Surrey couple opened their home to a family fleeing war, they had no idea how much they, and their whole community, would benefit. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Samantha Lee Howe: The girl least likely to succeed who rewrote her own future
GROWING up in an abusive household in terror of her violent, drunken father, from the age of 11 Samantha Lee Howe would escape her unhappiness by writing adventure stories. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Confidence book review: Funny but not short on thrills
The sequel to the joyously funny Conviction sees the return of Anna and Fin, who were catapulted into an unlikely friendship after their spouses ran off with each other. Together, they collaborate on a podcast More...
Author Mick Herron WINS Britain’s most prestigious crime writing award
AUTHOR Mick Herron was last night revealed as the winner of Britain’s most prestigious crime writing award. The Newcastle-born writer won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022, supported More...
George RR Martin health: Winds of Winter author, 73, confesses personal sickness concerns
THE WINDS OF WINTER author George RR Martin, who still has two books to go in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, has shared his worries about getting sick amid mountains of work. The 73-year-old Game of Thrones More...
John Downing book: Roller-coaster career of journalist shot by the Taliban
IT WAS alchemy. Before my very eyes, an image shot days earlier reappeared like magic on a blank sheet of paper. Slowly but surely in the small, stuffy darkroom I’d been invited into as a 13-year-old kid, More...
‘Guns have more rights than my uterus’ Crime writer Karin Slaughter on US abortion ban
IT IS a decision many fear has set back women’s rights by half a century. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
