A couple of years ago I started losing weight very rapidly, for no apparent reason. The pounds were falling off me, even as I waited for an appointment to see my GP.
My clothes no longer fitted: the waist of my trousers suddenly sat on my hips. I thought, ‘This is it, not only has some disease invaded my brain, but now my body, too.’
I was convinced I had cancer. ‘You know I don’t want treatment?’ I told my
It is a question that frequently pops up on pub quizzes: how many of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can you name?
Perhaps more pertinently, how many are still standing?
The answer, as a new book reveals, is only one: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, by historian Bettany Hughes, tells the story of each of the glittering marvels of engineering.
Five of the six that are now lost to the past
A hectic family Christmas. A stressed out tabby cat. And amid the chaos, noise and celebrations, a heartwarming message that will fill you with festive cheer.
At this nostalgic time of year, there are few things more pleasurable than indulging in familiar, comforting classics that transport us back to childhood.
And there can be few characters who do that more universally than Mog.
The trouble-prone puss, conjured up by the brilliant mind of late author Judith Kerr, has been a
A debut author who admitted to creating fake profiles to ‘one star bomb’ non-white writers has been dropped by her publisher as it’s been revealed she feared ‘being cancelled’ after her book came out.
LA-based Cait Corrain was set to release Crown of Starlight – a ‘steamy, sci-fi reimagining’ of the Greek myth of Ariadne and Dionysus – in May 2024.
But her publisher US publisher Del Rey has now officially dropped her.
The imprint of Penguin Random House, stated
A debut author has apologized after admitting to creating fake Goodreads accounts to ‘one star bomb’ other non-white writers – and falsely claiming that a well-meaning ‘friend’ was behind it.
LA-based Cait Corrain was set to release Crown of Starlight – a ‘steamy, sci-fi reimagining’ of the Greek myth of Ariadne and Dionysus – in May 2024.
But earlier last week Xiran Jay Zhao – #1 New York Times bestselling author of hit novel Iron Widow – provided ’31 pages
Meghan Markle didn’t want to share the spotlight with Victoria and David Beckham during her first international royal tour, it has been claimed.
Royal author Tom Bower alleged that in October 2018, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were undertaking their first-ever international royal tour as a married couple, Prince Harry kept a distance between himself and the celebrity couple despite them having flown to Australia with their sons Cruz and Romeo to support the Invictus Games.
The author
One surprise was that I had saved them in the first place. Did I really think I’d want someday to reread my World Book-sourced report on the Warsaw Pact? But the bigger surprise was a draft of one of my college application essays — printed, in pencil, on the green notebook paper I favored because I thought it was distinctive. The prompt for the essay was, “If you were to write a book, what would its subject be?” (Ugh
Jean Fagan Yellin, a historian whose six years of sleuthing revealed that what had been presumed to be a 19th-century white author’s fictional account of a young woman’s life as a slave in the American South was, in fact, a rare autobiography written by a formerly enslaved woman, died on July 19 at her home in Sarasota, Fla. She was 92.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Michael Yellin.
The author’s name was Harriet Jacobs.
“There are only a
In the past six years, Riley Sager has published seven novels — all of them best sellers except his first, “Final Girls,” which won a 2018 International Thriller Writers Award. The Pennsylvania native reliably produces one book a year on a strict schedule that sounded remarkably uncomplicated (if dizzying) when he described it in a phone interview.
“I usually start on Jan. 2 and keep writing until June,” Sager said. Then comes a month of publicity and touring for the
At what age is sex best? Some women may say that their most enjoyable sex is behind them, the preserve of the limber, child-free days of their 20s, when everything was just that little bit perkier and the menopause had yet to wreak havoc on their libido.
Others would attest that the sex of their youth was hampered by insecurities and unsuitable partners, and that sex gets better only with age — if perhaps more infrequent.
In Dame Arlene Phillips’s
