Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Explore Carcassonne with top author Kate Mosse By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 19 December 2020 The magnificent French city of Carcassonne – the largest walled city in Europe and a Unesco World Heritage site – is home to perhaps … Read more
A delightful Victorian five-bedroom house that was once home to beloved Peter Pan author JM Barrie has gone on the market for £950,000. The famous novelist is known to have spent summers at Beechwood, in the unspoilt Scottish village of Strathtay in Highland Perthshire, and is understood to have rented the period property. The home has … Read more
The Duchess of Cornwall ‘will be very careful to stay in the background’ when Prince Charles becomes King because some royal fans still see her as the ‘Diana destroyer’, a royal author has claimed. Camilla, 73, who is based in Clarence House, London, with the Prince of Wales, 72, will try not to be too much … Read more
Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his first novel Shuggie Bain – a ‘powerful and moving’ story based on his own experience growing up in 1980s Glasgow. The writer, 44, is the second-ever Scot to win the £50,000 award after James Kelman scooped the prize for How Late It Was, How Late in 1994. … Read more
Meryl Streep plays an unorthodox author who tries to reconnect with three old friends and her nephew in the trailer for Let Them Talk. Steven Soderbergh returns to the helm to direct this comedy, from a script by Deborah Eisenberg, who makes her feature writing debut. The comedy, which also stars Candace Bergen, Dianne Wiest, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would QC and author Marina Wheeler take to a desert island? Marina Wheeler is currently reading Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald She would take all three volumes of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 to a desert island Wheeler said Ian McEwan’s The Children Act left her feeling cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:07 GMT, … Read more
Bookshop owner and bestselling author reveals the seven kinds of people you find in his store in hilarious new tome – from the ‘aspirational parent’ to the ‘sneering expert’ Bookshop owner and author Shaun Bythell explores people he finds in his shop He talks about the seven different ways in which customers can drive him … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Michael Bond’s daughter Karen Jankel take to a desert island? Karen Jankel is currently reading the book I had Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes She would take Mango And Mimosa by Suzanne St Albans to a desert island Jankel said The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien left her feeling cold By … Read more
White author has her books pulled by retail store after calling New Zealand Maori foreign minister’s face tattoo ‘ugly, uncivilised wokedom’ Olivia Pierson took to Twitter to comment on the appearance of Nanaia Mahuta She claimed that Prime Minister Jacinda Arden had ‘gone full wokelette’ Mighty Ape NZ has since confirmed that it had made … Read more
Now you can’t call a 500lb woman ‘fat’: Author Bruce Wagner reveals he’s pulled out of latest publishing deal claiming his editor said the word is ‘problematic’ and shouldn’t appear in his the novel Author Bruce Wagner was told the word ‘fat’ is ‘problematic language’ A 500lb character in his book playfully describes herself as … Read more