What’s more, House of the Dragon’s source material, Fire and Blood, is also available on Audible in audiobook form right now. By getting up to date on Martin’s spin-off book, you’ll be ahead of the curve when season two of House of the Dragon hits NOW and Sky Cinema. Audible …
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JK Rowling has become a polarising figure in recent years with her outspoken views on transgenderism. Most recently she challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law, describing several transgender women (biological males who identify as women) as men on social media. The Harry Potter author has continued to double down on …
Read More »Someone goes missing in the UK every 90 seconds | UK | News
45-year-old mortgage adviser Nicola Bulley who went missing. (Image: ) I live in the Scottish Highlands where, last year, I read about a lone hiker who disappeared. Literally. He went off hill walking one day and never returned. The story made a few paragraphs in a local paper, that was …
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45-year-old mortgage adviser Nicola Bulley who went missing. (Image: ) I live in the Scottish Highlands where, last year, I read about a lone hiker who disappeared. Literally. He went off hill walking one day and never returned. The story made a few paragraphs in a local paper, that was …
Read More »Six in 10 have been inspired to try something new – after reading a book | Books | Entertainment
Six in 10 adults have been inspired to take up or do something new after reading – including change career, learn a new language, and climb a mountain, research has found. A poll of 2,000 adults, who read for pleasure, found 26 percent have been compelled to make a positive …
Read More »Book lovers can bag 3 months of Audible for 99p in limited time deal | Books | Entertainment
Amazon is giving shoppers the chance to bag three months of audiobooks for just 99p and the options are seemingly endless. Audible is the shopping giant’s audiobook service and would usually set you back £7.99 a month for one credit which you can cash in for any book on the …
Read More »The incredible story of a 14th century Great Escape from the Tower of London | Books | Entertainment
The Tower of London was a prison until the 1950s (Image: Rudy Sulgan/Getty) The mass escape of Allied airmen from a German prisoner of war camp remains one of history’s most famous jail-breaks. Stalag Luft III was designed to be escape-proof but PoWs, using impressive ingenuity to remain undetected, dug …
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The stone stands next to a bus stop on the outskirts of Chichester. Today, post-war semi-detached houses, a community centre and a sense of Home Counties order prevails on Broyle Road in this anonymous corner of Sussex. Yet, if you can pick out the inscription on the faded stone, you …
Read More »Will Dean: ‘My parents never read, I was the black sheep of the family’ | Books | Entertainment
Will Dean (Image: Handout) It is the ultimate locked room mystery. An edge-of-the-seat thriller set on a gigantic cruise ship where nobody can arrive and nobody can leave. But author Will Dean has given the concept a spine-chilling twist. Shortly after his fictional ship sets sail for America from Southampton, …
Read More »Could a little black box on a crashed Nazi bomber have saved Coventry? | History | News
A Heinkel 111 like the one hat crashed on Chesil Beach carrying secret German navigational aids (Image: GETTY) The Reverend Richard Howard looked across the roofscape of Coventry. It was the night of November 14, 1940, and the air raid sirens were sounding as he stood high above the nave …
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