9 h. ago 'I wrote a book and published it online. When I woke up next morning it was number one in the charts'

Sophie Gravia swapped nursing for writing and now the author of bestselling The Glasgow Kiss book series and The Dicktionary Club has a BBC podcast

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25 h. ago Donald Trump tried to pursue Princess Diana as his 'ultimate trophy wife'

Donald Trump himself has admitted to only having 'one regret in the women department': In his 1997 book, he wrote: 'I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer.

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4 d. ago 'It survived two World Wars... what a sad end': Heartbreak as Manchester's Hotspur Press left a smouldering ruin

This morning, people woke up with the tragic realisation that one of Manchester's oldest and most symbolic buildings has been destroyed

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1 week ago The Queen was the 'master of the understatement', according to royal expert INGRID SEWARD

Ingrid Seward, one of the most prominent and respected royal biographers, wrote about the Queen's sense of humour in her book My Mother And I.

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2 w. ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has diedEdmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy’s Own Story – and literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex – has died aged 85.His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent, Bill Clegg, on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What Tui, Loveholidays and other major holiday companies are saying about travelling to Greece and Turkey

Holidaymakers woke up to shakes this morning

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3 w. ago Woman, 88, 'wakes up' in coffin after being wrongly declared dead by coroner

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4 w. ago What it’s like to be in the graduating class of 2025 in Gaza | Nadera Mushtha

While students around the world dream of classrooms, students in Gaza dream of survivalBefore the war, students in Gaza were surrounded by books, not bombs. They woke each morning to the voices of their mothers urging them to get ready for school, not to the sound of airstrikes and screaming. They were focused on building a future, working hard to shape a better life for themselves and their homeland.Before the war started, my best friends and I used to go to the restaurants that were near the university, talking, laughing, eating and studying together, eating our breakfast together under a blue sky before going to the first lecture.Nadera Mushtha is a writer and poet from Gaza who is studying English language education at the Islamic University of Gaza. Her writing has been published on Al Jazeera, Mondoweiss, the Electronic Intifada, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Continue reading...

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