10 h. ago Bestselling author Adele Parks MBE in Scotland to launch new novel

Our Beautiful Mess, the author's 25th novel was launched at the Bookface Sip & Swaps in Glasgow on Sunday.

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10 h. ago Davina McCall: If you don’t let your kids have catastrophes, how are they going to learn?

TV presenter and bestselling author Davina McCall talks about the highs and lows of parenting, and what inspired her to write her new book Birthing.

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6 d. ago A moment that changed me: I gave up meat at 16 – and learned how to say no

I’d grown up as a people-pleaser, finding self-worth in others’ approval. But the bafflement and hostility I faced in the 1980s taught me to live on my own termsI became a pescatarian when I was 16. At the time, I wasn’t aware of any other vegetarians or pescatarians in my family or peer group, but it seemed like an obvious choice for me.It was the 1980s and BSE – the spread of which would soon result in a national crisis – had recently appeared in the UK. Emerging evidence and research indicated that eating meat could be detrimental to a person’s health. That, added to the horrific smell that wafted from the nearby tannery in Yarm and an abattoir just up the road in Stockton-on-Tees, was enough to convince me that eschewing meat was the right call. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Dad falls to his death while trying to do good deed that goes badly wrong

Stephen Queen, 34, was enjoying a hike with a friend at the Morialta Conservation Park in Adelaide, Australia, when he tried to pick up a piece of litter but ended up falling to his death

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8 d. ago Spinal Tap II, Julia Roberts and Paul Thomas Anderson: the best films of autumn 2025

An original Alan Bennett screenplay, a classy star turn for George Clooney and a Bruce Springsteen biopic are all on their way to the big screen• See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts preview picks hereAll release dates are UK and subject to changeComic book author and novelist Charlie Huston adapts his own cult bestseller of the same title, Darren Aronofsky directs – and this comedy certainly signals a shift in tone after his last movie, body-image tragedy The Whale. Austin Butler stars as ex-baseball-player Hank Thompson who gets mixed up in the seedy underbelly of crime in 90s New York. • 29 August Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'Kate and William are welcome for a cuppa anytime!' Waleses new neighbours say they can't wait for family to move into Windsor 'forever home'

Prince William and Kate and their children George, Charlotte, and Louis will soon be moving to Windsor Great Park's Forest Lodge, after a difficult period at Adelaide Cottage.

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1 week ago Which famous adventurer would Adele Parks take to a desert island?

Adele Parks answers our burning questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold?

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2 w. ago Sally Rooney's BBC royalties to fund Palestine Action as London protest set for 1,000 protesters

Writing in The Irish Times, the bestselling author said she will continue to support the group despite it being proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK

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2 w. ago 'Single men over 60 are either looking for a nurse or a purse': Laura Lippman on her post

Faced with the romantic options available following her shock divorce, bestselling US author Laura Lippman came to an empowering decision

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2 w. ago Bestselling author gobsmacked by reaction after leaving signed book in shop

An author decided to sign one of her books in 'secret' in Tesco and didn't expect anything else to happen. However, she was left gobsmacked by what happened next

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2 w. ago Katabasis by RF Kuang review – a descent into the hellscape of academia

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical gleeThe more academia has broken your heart, the more you’ll love RF Kuang’s new novel. Katabasis knows the slow grind of postgrad precarity: the endless grant grubbing and essay marking; the thesis chapters drafted, redrafted and quietly ignored by a supervisor who can’t be bothered to read – let alone reply to – an email. Living semester to semester, pay shrinking, workload metastasising, cannon fodder in a departmental forever war. Katabasis knows how it feels to spend your best thinking years doing grunt work to further someone else’s ideas, clinging to the bottom rung of a ladder you will never be allowed to climb: less an ivory tower than a pyramid scheme.Academia is a hellscape; Katabasis just makes it literal. The American author’s sixth novel is an infernal twist on the campus farce: David Lodge with demons. Kuang’s previous book, 2023’s Yello...

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3 w. ago Dr Benji Waterhouse on finding the funny in psychiatry: 'The NHS runs on gallows humour'

Psychiatrist, comedian and now bestselling author Dr Benji Waterhouse on how his various careers inform each other and why his Edinburgh Fringe show is your best chance to see an NHS shrink without a 12-month wait

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4 w. ago Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden review – darkly funny Swedish autofiction

In this bleak, bestselling coming-of-age debut, the author evokes life with the seven dads he had in seven yearsFor Mum (NB: not in a passive aggressive way)” reads the dedication at the beginning of this distinctive debut. It gives us a promising flavour of the voice with whom we’ll be spending the next 340 pages.The story begins with deceptive simplicity: “Once upon a time, I had seven dads in seven years. This is the story of those years.” The narrative has a section for each “dad”, charting Andrev’s tumultuous childhood and teens as his mother’s boyfriends come and go, all of them disappointing and disruptive, and several of them violent. The dads are named for their dominant trait in young Andrev’s eyes: so we get the Plant Magician, the Thief, the Murderer, the Artist, among others. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Billy Connolly’s early brushes with law before fame to be highlighted in new book

Bestselling author Colin MacFarlane has written a take on the celebrities Billy has befriended over the years.

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