Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown is being sued by his ex-wife for ‘leading a double life’

The ex-wife of The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has filed a lawsuit alleging the man known for writing about conspiracies and secret societies led a double life during their marriage that included a tryst with a Dutch horse trainer and other affairs.  In her lawsuit filed Monday in New Hampshire, Blythe Brown also … Read more

Normal People author Sally Rooney’s novel Conversations With Friends confirmed for TV adaptation

Normal People author Sally Rooney’s novel Conversations With Friends confirmed for major TV adaptation reuniting the same team who worked on the smash hit drama By Joanna Crawley For Mailonline Published: 10:26 BST, 26 June 2020 | Updated: 10:26 BST, 26 June 2020 BBC Three and Hulu are hoping for another TV triumph as it’s … Read more

Author who quit JK Rowling’s agency over transgender row says she’s ‘fallen in with the wrong crowd’

Author who quit JK Rowling’s agency over transgender row says Harry Potter author has ‘fallen in with the wrong crowd’ and needs to ‘open her eyes’ Fox Fisher, Drew Davies and Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir resigned from The Blair Partnership  A fourth author is understood to have quit but wished to remain anonymous  Fox Fisher … Read more

Eton apologises to Nigerian author banned from going back after his book detailed appalling racism

Eton College has today apologised to the first black student to complete his studies there after he suffered years of racist abuse from boys who accused him of being riddled with maggots and asked him: ‘Does your mother wear a bone in her nose?’. Nigerian-born Dillibe Onyeama would eventually leave the prestigious private school in … Read more

Street Cat Named Bob, who turned heroin addict James Bowen into a best-selling author, dies aged 14

Street Cat Named Bob, whose exploits were turned into a best-selling book that helped turn his heroin-addict owner James Bowen’s life around, dies aged 14 A famous cat who has starred in books and been portrayed in films has died 14-year-old Bob transformed the fortunes of friend and owner James Bowen Mr Bowen was a … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the ‘big losers’ in the Royal Family, claims royal author

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the ‘big losers’ in the Royal Family amid the coronavirus pandemic and look ‘irrelevant in this country,’ claims royal author Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been branded ‘big losers’ in Royal Family Royal expert claimed couple missed out on opportunity to boost public image  Added lack of presence amid … Read more

Author recalls growing up with alcoholic dad and drug addict sister in a sink estate in the Nineties

An author has shared a candid account of growing up on a Scottish sink estate in the Nineties. Fashion journalist Lynne Coleman, who has written three books and now lives in Edinburgh, moved to an ex-council house in Auchenback, a few miles outside of Glasgow, when she was six. She told how arson, vandalism and violent … Read more

Author Susanna Moore opens up about being raped by designer Oleg Cassini

Author Susanna Moore has opened up about being raped by Jackie Kennedy and Grace Kelly’s designer Oleg Cassini, saying she still blames herself more than 50 years later.    The 74-year-old revealed in her new memoir, Miss Aluminum, that she was sexually assaulted by Cassini in a hotel room when she was a young model in the … Read more

A tale of two Dickenses: The author was a champion of the oppressed but at home he was a cruel bully

The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By A.N. Wilson (Atlantic £17.99, 368 pp) Like all the best mystery stories, this true one starts with a death. On Wednesday June 8, 1870, the small, punctiliously neat, whiskery 58-year-old Charles Dickens, having told friends he was on his way to London on business, took a train to Peckham, … Read more