Prince Harry suffers fresh blow as memoir sets humiliating record just before Christmas | Royal | News
Prince Harry‘s memoir Spare hit a humiliating milestone after it emerged as the most traded-in biography of 2024. The bombshell book, which was first released in its hardpack edition in 2023 and in its paperback edition last October, contained several explosive claims about the Duke of Sussex’s life within the Firm. On its release, it More...
Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler fears AI could wipe out children’s drawing skills | Books | Entertainment
Youngsters have traditionally found joy in using paints and pencils – but now they can also generate images and words by pressing a few keys on computers or phones. Axel – who has illustrated many books More...
Blur legend reveals for first time reason band were fined £20k at Wembley reunion gigs | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Dave Rowntree, Damon Albarn, Alex James and Graham Coxon of Blur (Image: Getty Images) Blur bassist Alex James has revealed how the band was fined £20,000 for smoking on stage when they played their two More...
More of 2024’s best books – as picked by top-rate authors | UK | News
To order any of the books of featured visit expressbookshop.com or call Express Bookshop on 020 3176 3832. Free UK P&P on orders over £25 Wyndham and Bannerjee creator Abir Mukherjee, above, whose More...
The best books of 2024 – recommended by Ian Rankin, Mick Herron, Mary Beard and others | UK | News
To order any of the books of featured visit expressbookshop.com or call Express Bookshop on 020 3176 3832. Free UK P&P on orders over £25 Sir Ian Rankin, above, whose 25th Rebus novel Midnight And More...
How Gerald Durrell’s legacy continues to inspire animal-lovers | Nature | News
Conservationists Gerald and Lee Durrell with lemurs at Jersey Zoo in 1987 (Image: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.) The legendary naturalist Gerald Durrell once noted that “so-called human progress More...
George RR Martin’s devastating Winds of Winter confession is worst possible news | Books | Entertainment
The last time George RR Martin published a novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series was in 2011 when Game of Thrones was debuting on HBO. Since then, the 76-year-old has continued to work on the penultimate More...
Tool shows what books you could’ve read in time spent looking at your phone
By inputting the amount of time you spend browsing content on your phone, a new online tool reveals what novels you could have read in the time you spend aimlessly scrolling. It includes literary works like More...
Stephen Fry topped by Doctor Who star in UK poll of Brits’ favourite narrators | Books | Entertainment
Yesterday morning, Stephen Fry made a surprise appearance at London Waterloo train station to give a reading from his new book. The Harry Potter narrator performed an immersive segment of his retelling of Homer’s More...
The Office star Ralph Ineson on his new role transforming lives of prison inmates | UK | News
Award-winning actor Ralph Ineson stars as a jail inmate who finds solace and redemption through reading in a short film highlighting the work of a charity that helps prisoners find joy in books. Ineson, best More...
