Category : Books

After a month off in the UK and Europe for business and pleasure, George RR Martin is finally back home in Santa Fe. The 75-year-old...

Prolific early 20th century con artist Arthur Barry robbed the rich and famous (Image: Dean Jobb Collection) Lord Louis Mountbatten stirred slightly in his sleep....

A man who dreams of becoming a writer was overjoyed when he was contacted by an agent saying they had offers that would see his...

Christine Granville in postwar time (Image: National Portrait Gallery London) Scrambling ever higher through the trees up the goat tracks, Krystyna Skarbek headed towards the...

Currently No 1 this week in the Amazon charts is Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid. Described as “an absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist”,...

A table fitted with restraints before an execution at Huntsville Unit in Texas (Image: Getty) Moments before her children’s killer was to be executed, the...

Richard Osman says he felt like he was “cheating” on his beloved Thursday Murder Club characters when writing his new standalone thriller. The four novels...

Into the great wide open: Simon Parker on the road in the States (Image: Simon Parker) A bright dawn bled through a chink in the...

Hannah Pierce, owner of narrowboat ‘Argie Bargie’ (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster for Daily Express) After a break-up, some people hit the gym; others cut their hair...

It was the miners spinning yarns in pubs and social clubs that inspired a teenage Kim Slater to become a writer. She grew up in...