‘I’ve survived!’ Author Michael Rosen, 74, leaves hospital after three month battle with coronavirus as wife shares photo showing him back home Award-winning poet and children’s author was taken into intensive care in March Mr Rosen spent 47 days in intensive care before finally returning home yesterday He charted his battle with Covid -19 on Twitter … Read more
Author who quit JK Rowling’s agency over transgender row says Harry Potter author has ‘fallen in with the wrong crowd’ and needs to ‘open her eyes’ Fox Fisher, Drew Davies and Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir resigned from The Blair Partnership A fourth author is understood to have quit but wished to remain anonymous Fox Fisher … Read more
Street Cat Named Bob, whose exploits were turned into a best-selling book that helped turn his heroin-addict owner James Bowen’s life around, dies aged 14 A famous cat who has starred in books and been portrayed in films has died 14-year-old Bob transformed the fortunes of friend and owner James Bowen Mr Bowen was a … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the ‘big losers’ in the Royal Family amid the coronavirus pandemic and look ‘irrelevant in this country,’ claims royal author Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been branded ‘big losers’ in Royal Family Royal expert claimed couple missed out on opportunity to boost public image Added lack of presence amid … Read more
An author has shared a candid account of growing up on a Scottish sink estate in the Nineties. Fashion journalist Lynne Coleman, who has written three books and now lives in Edinburgh, moved to an ex-council house in Auchenback, a few miles outside of Glasgow, when she was six. She told how arson, vandalism and violent … Read more
Never have I lost control of myself quite so violently as when I was told that I had cancer for the second time. By the time my wife, Victoria, had brought me home, I was banging my head against cupboards, weeping uncontrollably and howling like an animal from a place so deep inside me that … Read more
Author Susanna Moore has opened up about being raped by Jackie Kennedy and Grace Kelly’s designer Oleg Cassini, saying she still blames herself more than 50 years later. The 74-year-old revealed in her new memoir, Miss Aluminum, that she was sexually assaulted by Cassini in a hotel room when she was a young model in the … Read more
The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By A.N. Wilson (Atlantic £17.99, 368 pp) Like all the best mystery stories, this true one starts with a death. On Wednesday June 8, 1870, the small, punctiliously neat, whiskery 58-year-old Charles Dickens, having told friends he was on his way to London on business, took a train to Peckham, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Jane Harper take to a desert island? Jane Harper said The Witches by Roald Dahl first gave her the reading bug She is currently reading Grown Ups by Marian Keyes and loves all of her novels Author said she would take Killing Floor by Lee Child on a desert island with … Read more
Why Henry VIII was king of the lockdown and would have been only too aware of the risks posed by scourges such as the plague, reveals author Dame Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mantel believes life in a crisis under King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell would have been even tougher She explained Tudors knew more … Read more