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Bestsellerautor Dekan Koontz schreibt oft über Fremde, die aus Gründen, die sie nicht erklären können, zusammengebracht werden, um sich Kräften zu stellen, die sie nicht verstehen.
Sein neuester Pageturner „The Bad Weather Friend“ stellt einen Immobilienmakler aus Orange County vor, der von einer Reihe unglücklicher Ereignisse heimgesucht wird, die sein Leben auf den Kopf stellen. Unerwartet kommt Hilfe in Form eines gewaltigen Riesen mit einer Vielzahl besonderer Fähigkeiten, die
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
Harry and Meghan have been excluded from the high society wedding of his childhood friend Hugh Grosvenor – but William and Kate are invited – in the latest sign of a Royal rift between the two brothers.
Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, is said to have wanted to invite the Sussexes but decided against it to avoid clashes on his big day amid soaring tensions between the royals following the release of Omid Scobie’s new book.
He picked the
The last time I visited Rebecca in the hospital, in September, 2022, we spent the afternoon researching hospice options and talking about her novel. Rebecca had been working on it for a decade, and for the past four years she’d been sick: lung cancer that spread to her bones, and then her brain. If I was being honest with myself, and I probably wasn’t, there was a kind of magical thinking embedded in the pleasure of hearing Rebecca talk about
Meghan Markle avoided an awkward run in with her ex-best friend Jessica Mulroney when both hit Las Vegas over the weekend.
The Duchess of Sussex, 42, flew to Vegas for a glamorous date night with her husband Prince Harry, 39, to attend one of Katy Perry ‘s last residency concerts.
In footage shared online, the pair were seen enjoying the concert from their front seats of a section at the Resorts World Theatre on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, Meghan’s ex-best friend
America has lost its first Friend.
The death of Matthew Perry, age 54, comes as a shock — yet it also seems inevitable.
He told us as much in his memoir, ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,’ published one year ago this week.
‘I should be dead,’ he wrote in his prologue. ‘My mind is out to kill me, and I know it. I am constantly filled with a lurking loneliness, a yearning, clinging to the notion that something
From bears waving back at photographers to kangaroos and stallions dancing the tango, the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards capture some of Mother Nature’s most incredible moments.
Open for free to both amateur and professional photographers, the competition celebrates the sheer hilarity of the natural world while highlighting the need to protect this incredible wildlife.
The contest was founded by Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam in 2015, and has grown to become a globally-renowned competition with images seen by
The British ‘danger tourist’ who was arrested by the Taliban’ secret police is alive and ‘living in luxury’ after befriending his captors, a ‘trusted friend’ of his ‘who talks to him regularly’ has claimed.
During the past few months in ‘prison’ in Afghanistan, Miles Routledge, also known as Lord Miles, is said to have been in talks with Taliban officials over a gold mine, as he apparently has ‘picnics and dinners with higher ups’.
The 23-year-old from Birmingham was arrested
For a long time, it was a mystery how Jho Low – a rather unassuming Malaysian businessman – became ingratiated with some of the biggest names in showbusiness.
However, when it was revealed that he was lavishing them with gifts, funding their projects and inviting them to Great Gatsby-esque parties across the globe, it became easier to understand why stars kept him around.
Instead, the mystery became how it was that Low could afford his free-spending lifestyle. There was one
As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly plan a production of Canadian novelist Carley Fortune’s romance novel Meet Me at the Lake in a bid to get their Hollywood dream back on track, they are said to have been captivated by the plot.
New York Times Bestselling author Fortune’s second novel is a romance about two long-lost lovers, Will and Fern, whose paths cross by chance a decade after first meeting and sparks fly between the pair.
An insider has
