Dan Brown’s intricate codes, symbols and hidden meanings have beguiled fans across the globe, helping him to sell more than 200 million copies of his books, most notably the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. But today, he’s at the centre of his own real-life mystery with his ex-wife Blythe, whom he divorced last year, having … Read more
Dan Brown’s intricate codes, symbols and hidden meanings have beguiled fans across the globe, helping him to sell more than 200 million copies of his books, most notably the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. But today, he’s at the centre of his own real-life mystery with his ex-wife Blythe, whom he divorced last year, having … Read more
The Lost Colony of Roanoke has been an unsolved American mystery for centuries, but to Scott Dawson it was not the English settlers who went missing, it was the Croatoan tribe who helped them that did. Dawson, an author and hobby archaeologist, has spent nearly a decade searching for proof that the group integrated with … Read more
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will return to the UK to resume their charity work once lockdown travel restrictions ease, Omid Scobie has claimed. The co-author of bombshell biography Finding Freedom, currently the best-selling book in the UK, said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will undertake trips to Britain in both a private and professional … Read more
A man who has been blessed with youthful good looks has revealed he is often mistaken for a man two decades younger. Edson Brandao, 53, is an influencer, personal coach and writer who lives in Groningen, the Netherlands, and says a clean-living lifestyle keeps him looking young. Having always been a confident man, Edson said … Read more
She had scarcely travelled anywhere at all. Yet, recently separated from my father and keen for adventure, my mother, Mary, decided to whisk my sister and me to Athens. It was the late 1970s. I was 17 years old — and promptly fell in love at first sight. Not with a dark-eyed local boy, but … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Elif Shafak take to a desert island? Elif Shafak is reading Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line by Deepa Anappara She revealed that she would take Orlando by Virginia Woolf to a desert island Author said Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 … Read more
CULTURE THE WISDOM OF TEA by Noriko Morishita (Allen & Unwin £12.99, 224 pp) You may think you’re particular about how you make your tea — warm the pot? Milk in first? Teabag in a mug? Whatever your brew, it’s nothing to the Japanese tea ceremony. As this delightfully quirky little book, which is part … Read more
As part of the ‘Reclaim Her Name’ campaign, a series of books by female authors who used male pen names will be re-released with the writer’s real name. The books include: Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, Miss Evans’ book focuses on Dorothea’s loveless marriage to the pompous, middle-aged Reverend Casaubon Middlemarch, by … Read more
The author of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new biography Finding Freedom hit back at claims he had any lengthy discussions with the couple ahead of the publication of their explosive biography. Omid Scobie, who co-wrote Finding Freedom with Carolyn Durand, took to Twitter to clarify he had only exchanged a ‘few words at engagements’ rather … Read more