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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 administration spanned just over 1000 days, but historians lay and academic have …

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 signallers are on hand to scrutinise our every utterance, one of literature’s greatest anti-heroes is still entertaining readers more than …

Phil with England in 1993 (Image: Getty) One night on Jersey in 2004, a grand piano in Phil Tufnell’s hotel trundled along a corridor and plunged down a flight of stairs. It made a noise so loud it could possibly have been heard on neighbouring Channel Islands. Phil had been …

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 no other author can continue the Harry Bosch franchise after his death as he fights a lawsuit accusing artificial intelligence of …

It’s been 12 years since George RR Martin last published a novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. Since then the Game of Thrones HBO show has been and gone, with showrunners being forced to rely on his outlines for the last two unwritten books to …

It was a repeat of the Windy Ridge tragedy more than a decade ago. Consequently, for the next few weeks I avoided the northern boundary, always changing my movements at the last minute and never repeating a schedule. I also wore a bulletproof vest at all times and each night …

Leading scientists are now confident of finding an effective treatment within five years for the brutal degenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This has been made possible by £50million of Government funding secured after the Sun-day Express launched our Fund The Fight To …

Jilly Cooper knew nothing of football in 2016 (Image: ) But she didn’t start writing the book – saucily titled Tackle! – until five years later. “When I was a cub reporter on the Middlesex Independent, aged 18, I used to cover the local football club. One of my first …

Author Liz Harvie (Image: Emma Hardy) But as far back as I can remember, I’ve felt a deep sadness on my birthday because I knew this was the one day of the year when my birth mother must surely think about me. I’d imagine – is she counting the years? …

“Fiction writers, we tend to make things up,” he says. “But if you have the president there and you’re writing about a president, that’s wonderful. Because he’ll tell you, ‘This is what the Secret Service would do, here’s what they wouldn’t do… here’s what might happen at the White House, …