Early in the morning of May 9, 1945, SS Gruppenführer Otto Wächter awakes near the Austrian city of Graz, with a serious problem to resolve. A few hours earlier, Germany has signed the definitive act of military surrender. The war in Europe is over, the first VE Day was celebrated in London and Washington. Wächter … Read more
Early in the morning of May 9, 1945, SS Gruppenführer Otto Wächter awakes near the Austrian city of Graz, with a serious problem to resolve. A few hours earlier, Germany has signed the definitive act of military surrender. The war in Europe is over, the first VE Day was celebrated in London and Washington. Wächter … Read more
Good Omens writer Neil Gaiman has split from wife Amanda Palmer after nine years of marriage. The British author, 59, confirmed the separation on his Twitter page on Monday after American singer Amanda, 44, blogged about the couple’s marital woes on her Patreon page. In the blog Amanda revealed she was in lockdown with their … Read more
WHAT BOOK would farmer and writer Amanda Owen take to a desert island? Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter by Frances Osborne She would take Swaledale by Marie Hartley and Ella Pontefract to a desert island British writer said James Herriot first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 30 April … Read more
A zip wire company has gone bust after a top TV writer won his fight to stop hundreds of thrill-seekers ‘whizzing past’ the windows of his home. Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, 57, led the campaign against plans to rig up a 360-metre long wire outside his waterside home. City Zip Company wanted to … Read more
WHAT BOOK would comedian and writer Robert Webb take to a desert island? Robert Webb is currently reading Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking British author would take Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy to a desert island He said The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe sparked his interest in reading By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 23 April … Read more
Gabriel Matzneff never tried to hide what he was. And why should he? In France’s highbrow intellectual circles, sexual deviancy has always tended to be something that ‘right-thinking’ liberals celebrate. The writer and philosopher, now 83, was therefore elevated to fame in 1974 when he published a highbrow defence of child sex called Les Moins … Read more
Readers of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine children’s tales have been offered the rare opportunity to take a glimpse into the place where it all began, after the idyllic former Norfolk home of Rev Wilbert Awdry hit the market. The enchanting Old Vicarage at Emneth, Norfolk, has eight bedrooms, five reception rooms and 1.5 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes She would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island British thriller writer revealed Patricia Highsmith has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 13 February 2020 … Read more