Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s with their sharp appraisal of tabloid culture and consumer excess, and whose private life made him tabloid fodder himself, died on Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Fla. He was 73.
His wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, said the cause was esophageal cancer — the same disease that killed his close friend and fellow writer Christopher Hitchens in 2011.
Mr. Amis published
It was an ordinary afternoon in 1970 when a 14-year-old Dan Harary looked through the windshield of his father’s car and saw a V-shaped UFO hovering above his New Jersey neighborhood in broad daylight.
The Hollywood publicist-turned-sci-fi writer never forgot the incredible moment, but it wasn’t until decades later that he became convinced his military dad, Jack, knew more about the flying saucer than he had let on.
Harary’s father worked as an electronics engineer with the U.S. Army from
King Charles allegedly rallied for years to ensure that his beloved wife Camilla would be recognized as queen.
The claim was made by Christopher Anderson, author of “The King: The Life of Charles III,” for which he spoke to numerous insiders about Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest son. According to the U.K.’s DailyMail, “well-placed sources” alleged that Buckingham Palace is set to officially describe Camilla as “queen,” rather than “queen consort.”
A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace didn’t immediately respond to Fox
NHS staff who lie to cover-up poor care in the health service should face a criminal charge, the author of the damming probe into the East Kent maternity scandal has said.
The damning report published yesterday found at least 45 babies died unnecessarily due to 11 years of ‘deep-rooted’ failures in care at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.
In total 97 babies and mothers came to significant harm due to ‘deplorable’ care by maternity staff, some with lifelong injuries.
Dr
Thanks to the popular TikTok trend known as #BookTok, US author Colleen Hoover has become one of the world’s most successful writers – with five of her books currently sitting on the New York Times’ Top 10 Best Sellers list.
Colleen, 42, who hails from Texas, began writing as a hobby in 2011 while working as a social worker.
While she had no plans to make it her full-time job at the time, she self-published her first book, called Slammed,
On March 30, 1996, the ABC news-magazine show Turning Point featured a documentary about a pair of American conservationists titled “Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story.” The show’s co-anchor Diane Sawyer introduced the broadcast this way: “They went halfway around the world to follow a dream. An idealistic American couple—young, in love. But a strange place and time would test that love.”
The “strange place” was the south-central African nation of Zambia, a former British colony once known
In the summer of 2020, Becky Brown, a literary agent who represents dead authors, went to stay with her parents in Bath. Brown was between apartments and somewhat depressed. Like many people during the first months of the pandemic, she was struggling to read for pleasure. Brown represents around a hundred and thirty literary estates at Curtis Brown, a London-based agency. Her work has made her a skilled peruser of thrift and secondhand bookstores. Her eye scans rapidly and from
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know anything about the guy; I just selected him because he was young, and therefore, I figured, more likely to agree to talk.
What are you doing here?’ were the first words ever addressed to me by Charles, Prince of Wales, at a cocktail party in Calgary, Alberta.
They would also prove to be his last words to me, delivered more than 20 years later – in a significantly different tone of voice – when he rounded a bush in a far-flung corner of the Commonwealth to find me lurking behind it.
He was not used to the ‘posh’ papers trailing around after
As he watched Meghan Markle walk slowly down the aisle in St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Prince Andrew may well have reflected on his own love life.
Years before he became embroiled in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, the Prince was secretly dating the American actress Koo Stark, who had starred in a tepidly erotic movie directed by the arty aristocrat, the Earl of Pembroke.
Once their romance became public, pictures were circulated of Koo in various stages of undress, provoking
