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Author who researched the Queen for new murder mystery novel depicting the monarch as a detective insists Her Majesty doesn’t expect palace staff to ‘drop everything’ for her and is ‘not nearly as formal as people imagine’ Sophia Bennett spent years researching royal family for novel, The Windsor Knot Author claimed Her Majesty doesn’t expect … Read more
WHAT BOOK would historical novelist Kate Mosse take to a desert island? Kate Mosse is currently re-reading all Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels She said she would take T S Eliot’s Four Quartets with her to a desert island The novelist said Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
To say I love the Christmas season at our home in the South of France is an understatement. I get such a kick out of preparing the house for the arrival of family; seeing our scruffy old villa bursting at the seams with loved ones. Christmas in the Caribbean, after a tiring flight, may sweep … Read more
The husband of best-selling author Fay Weldon said today the breakup of his marriage was ‘sudden, bewildering and very sad’. Nick Fox rejected claims by his 89-year-old wife that his controlling behaviour was to blame for the shock split saying: ‘I want her back. I thought we had a good marriage. ‘We have known each … Read more
Under the microscope: Novelist Shirley Conran, 88, answers our health quiz By Yvonne Swan For The Daily Mail Published: 22:56 GMT, 26 October 2020 | Updated: 22:56 GMT, 26 October 2020 Novelist Shirley Conran, 88, answers our health quiz Novelist Shirley Conran, 88, answers our health quiz. CAN YOU RUN UP THE STAIRS? Not quite. … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Heather Morris take to a desert island? Heather Morris is half way through reading The Exiles by Christina Baker Kilne She revealed she would take Sole Survivor by Derek Hansen to a desert island Novelist said she first got the reading bug from The Encyclopedia Britannica By Heather Morris For The Daily … Read more
When one of the most powerful explosions on record tore through our eighth-floor apartment in central Beirut last month, it felt like the end of the world. In that millisecond, hundreds of thousands of people didn’t know if they would live or die. My mother and I were catapulted into the living room from our … Read more
Let’s not get too hung up about age. After all, as the perennially youthful Joan Collins is fond of reminding us, ‘it’s just a number’. Joan’s husband Percy Gibson is 55. ‘If he dies, he dies,’ the actress and writer famously quipped when pressed about the significant age difference between them. But how does her … Read more
She likes to celebrate the publication of each of her books with ‘a cold glass of champagne —with lots of bubbles’. But best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop may feel in the mood for a bottle of retsina this morning — if not a magnum. For I can disclose that she has just been awarded honorary Greek … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Anne Tyler take to a desert island? Anne Tyler has recently finished reading Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows She would take Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples to a desert island American novelist said Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: … Read more