New Lives in the Wild: Author had vasectomy due to ‘big bad world’

A man who has given up all technology and lives off grid in the wood has revealed he made the decision to have a vasectomy when he was 30 after growing despondent about the planet’s future.  Mark Boyle, 40, who stars in tonight’s Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild on Channel 5 at 9pm, … Read more

Author reveals he’s had a vasectomy because he doesn’t want to bring kids up in the ‘big bad world’

A man who has given up all technology and lives off grid in the wood has revealed he made the decision to have a vasectomy when he was 30 after growing despondent about the planet’s future.  Mark Boyle, 40, who stars in tonight’s Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild on Channel 5 at 9pm, … Read more

WHAT BOOK would children’s author Francesca Simon take to a desert island? 

WHAT BOOK would children’s author Francesca Simon take to a desert island? Francesca Simon is reading Last Train From Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey She would take The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope to a desert island  American author said Mary Poppins by P L Travers gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 28 January … Read more

WHAT BOOK would author Richard Flanagan take to a desert island?

WHAT BOOK would author Richard Flanagan take to a desert island? Author Richard Flanagan is currently reading James Rebanks’ English Pastoral He would take Anna Karenina to a desert island as he re-reads it every few years Richard’s own father was a reciter of poetry and it gave him the reading bug  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: … Read more

Best-selling author and artist Charlie Mackesy is helping us through lockdown

Kindness, tenderness, love, honesty and vulnerability run like golden threads through Charlie Mackesy’s exquisite pen and ink drawings. One shows a boy, a horse, a fox and an adorable tiny mole all huddled together in a dark and forbidding forest. In others, they cower beneath a looming thundercloud, struggle to find their way through thick … Read more

WHAT BOOK would author Meg Rosoff take to a desert island? 

WHAT BOOK would author Meg Rosoff take to a desert island? Meg Rosoff  has recently read Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror And The Light  She would take James Thurber’s essay, The Dog That Bit People to a desert island American author said Lord Of The Flies by William Golding left her cold  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 January … Read more

Author Maureen Lee dies at 88 as son pays tribute to romance and thriller writer

Author Maureen Lee dies at 88: Son pays tribute to romance and thriller writer who penned more than 20 novels set in her native Liverpool The author died on New Year’s Eve surrounded by family after a short illness Lee published 24 romance and thriller novels between 1983 and 2013 Almost all of her stories … Read more

Netflix and creators of Outer Banks sued over ‘stealing’ plot of teen drama from author K.W. Wooten

Netflix and the creators of Outer Banks sued over ‘stealing’ plot of their teen drama from author K.W. Wooten By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 16:29 GMT, 27 December 2020 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 27 December 2020 Independently-published author K.W. Wooten has reportedly sued Netflix and the creators of Outer Banks for ‘stealing’ the plot … Read more

Netflix and creators of Outer Banks sued over ‘stealing’ plot of teen drama from author K.W. Wooten

Netflix and the creators of Outer Banks sued over ‘stealing’ plot of their teen drama from author K.W. Wooten By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 16:29 GMT, 27 December 2020 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 27 December 2020 Independently-published author K.W. Wooten has reportedly sued Netflix and the creators of Outer Banks for ‘stealing’ the plot … Read more