Check & Mate review: Ali Hazelwood will leave you en prise | Books | Entertainment
When Ali Hazelwood first came out with The Love Hypothesis and readers just about fell over themselves I wasn’t sure it could live up to the hype. But, sure enough, I stayed up into the early hours of the morning unable to put it down; I reread it almost instantly and, at present, make a conscious effort to revisit Olive and Adam’s story. More...
Crime writer festival will be a thriller | Books | Entertainment
Ware is following in the footsteps of Ian Rankin, Lee Child and Val McDermid as programming chairman of the festival. The world-famous event, supported by the Daily and Sunday Express and now in its 21st year, More...
Anton Du Beke: Romance is more my literary passion | Books | Entertainment
Anton Du Beke has added another string to his bow (Image: Daily Express) In the flesh, Anton Du Beke is even more debonair than on Strictly Come Dancing. He may be dressed in a smart sports jacket rather More...
A Curse for True Love is the perfect end to Garber’s tale | Books | Entertainment
There are few series that actually leave me impatient for the following instalment. Once Upon a Broken Heart has been one of the few to leave me itching to find out what happens next, so when A Curse for True More...
My patient told me, “If I don’t make it, play Mozart at my funeral” | Books | Entertainment
Magdi as a child in Egypt in 1941 (Image: Yacoub family archive.) Forty years ago today legendary surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub carried out the UK’s first heart and lung transplant, saving the life More...
Dom Joly’s new book on conspiracy theories | Books | Entertainment
Dom Joly digs up conspiracy theories in new book (Image: Getty) They are, fairly obviously, not questions that trouble the vast majority of us: Does Finland exist? Is the Earth really flat? Where is the US More...
Hands off Harry Bosch – Writer Michael Connelly is determined to save his hero | Books | Entertainment
Connelly has joined forces with some of the world’s biggest literary names against OpenAI (Image: Netflix) Bestselling crime writer Michael Connelly has revealed his will contains strict instructions that More...
Read Sir Michael Caine’s thrilling debut novel first | Books | Entertainment
Michael Caine’s new novel (Image: Getty/Hodder & Stoughton) When Dave looked back and remembered seeing the box for the first time, he could have sworn it had been glowing. Well, he couldn’t be More...
JFK assassination 60th ‘Obsessed Kennedy predicted his death would be violent’ | Books | Entertainment
It was 60 years ago today that CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley died, but news of their deaths were overshadowed by the assassination of President John F Kennedy that very same day of November 22, 1963. JFK’s short More...
George MacDonald Fraser’s anti-woke antihero is loved by many, writes one fervent fan | Books | Entertainment
These action-packed books also really do work as excellent history, writes Lyle (Image: Shutterstock) WHILE Roald Dahl books are having the word ‘fat’ edited out and sensitivity readers and virtue More...
