Harry Potter original book cover art set to auction for record-breaking sum | Books | Entertainment
Back in the mid-1990s JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was rejected by no less than 12 publishers before being accepted by Bloomsbury. The book, which became the fourth best-selling novel of all time, had its original cover art painted by 23-year-old Thomas Taylor, who was fresh out of art school. And now his original watercolour More...
Author Paul Auster dies aged 77 just two years after devastating family losses | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Iconic author Paul Auster, famed for his work on the New York Trilogy, has passed away at 77 due to complications from lung cancer. The literary world is mourning the loss of Auster, who died on Tuesday, as More...
Funny Story review – Emily Henry turns the friends to lovers trope on its head | Books | Entertainment
Emily Henry quickly became an instant-buy author for me when I read You and Me on Vacation. I don’t have to even read what’s on the blurb to know it’s going to be a good one; she puts out hit More...
Harry Potter 2025 release announced that will thrill fans waiting for TV remake | Books | Entertainment
Harry Potter fans will no doubt be familiar with the audiobooks read by Stephen Fry in the UK and Jim Dale in the US. Now all seven novels are to be retold with an ensemble cast, Dolby Atmos sound, an original More...
Inside incredible case of D-Day hero whose death sentence was overturned | History | News
Black American GIs and a British vicar join voices at a hymn service for US soldiers in England,1942 (Image: Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) On a bright moonlit night nearly 80 years More...
Former James Bond cast in Thursday Murder Club movie from Steven Spielberg | Films | Entertainment
Back in 2020, Pointless presenter Richard Osman published his debut novel about a group of pensioners who team up to solve a mysterious killing. The Thursday Murder Club sold 45,000 copies in its first three More...
Lord Peter Hain: ‘My friend Mandela must be turning in his grave!’ | Politics | News
Lord Hain in his office with his treasured Nelson Mandela portrait (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) When people contact the office of Lord Peter Hain at Millbank House in Westminster, they may be surprised to More...
JK Rowling hits back at claim she doesn’t understand her own Harry Potter books | Books | Entertainment
JK Rowling has become a polarising figure in recent years with her outspoken views on transgenderism. Most recently she challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law, describing several transgender women (biological More...
Someone goes missing in the UK every 90 seconds | UK | News
45-year-old mortgage adviser Nicola Bulley who went missing. (Image: ) I live in the Scottish Highlands where, last year, I read about a lone hiker who disappeared. Literally. He went off hill walking one More...
Someone goes missing in the UK every 90 seconds | UK | Travel
45-year-old mortgage adviser Nicola Bulley who went missing. (Image: ) I live in the Scottish Highlands where, last year, I read about a lone hiker who disappeared. Literally. He went off hill walking one More...
