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Before she died at 54 last year, Lisa Marie Presley was working on her memoir with her eldest daughter Riley Keough. Elvis Prelsey’s daughter may have had fame and fortune, but her life was plagued by tragedy. From the death of her father at just nine years old, through her …

George RR Martin is perpetually busy. The 76-year-old has been working on his penultimate A Song of Ice and Fire novel since 2011, as fans continue to wait for updates on The Winds of Winter. The author infamously doesn’t write when travelling. Instead he exclusively works on his DOS computer …

A woman was shocked when she visited her local bookstore to find a popular fantasy series, only to unexpectedly meet the author browsing the shelves. Megan Moeai, an artist known for her gothic style and online presence under ‘moeai.art’, was left gobsmacked during a visit to her local Barnes and …

Richard Osman has no intention of resting on his laurels. (Image: David Levenson/Getty Images) Richard Osman is in the middle of a mammoth round of press interviews when we talk. He’s just got off the phone to Australia – the Aussies, needless to say, wanted to chat about the obsessive …

A Song of Ice and Fire fans have been worried for the last few years that George RR Martin’s other projects, especially his Game of Thrones spin-off TV shows commitments, have massively slowed down his focus on finishing The Winds of Winter. And now the 75-year-old has shared just how …

After a month off in the UK and Europe for business and pleasure, George RR Martin is finally back home in Santa Fe. The 75-year-old famously only works on his novels on his old DOS running computer which doesn’t travel with him. This means the author hasn’t written a word …

A man who dreams of becoming a writer was overjoyed when he was contacted by an agent saying they had offers that would see his work in print – until it lost him his life savings worth almost £13,000. Dave Gregson, from West Yorkshire, is unable to work because he …

Krystyna Skarbek, AKA Christine Granville, pictured in August 1944, in image donated to the National Portrait Gallery (Image: National Portrait Gallery, London) Scrambling ever higher through the trees up the goat tracks, Krystyna Skarbek headed towards the Nazi German frontier garrison on the Col-de-Larche, a strategic pass in the Alps. …

A table fitted with restraints before an execution at Huntsville Unit in Texas (Image: Getty) Moments before her children’s killer was to be executed, the grieving mother confronted prison chaplain Jim Brazzil outside the Death Chamber in Huntsville, Texas. “Let me get this right,” she said. “You want to lead …

Amazon has introduced an incredible offer of three months free of their audiobook subscription, Audible, in line with Amazon Prime Day. While the shopping giant often gives away a free trial for Audible, it is typically just a month. Now it’s for an impressive three months meaning you won’t have …