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Earlier this year Young Bond novel writer Charlier Higson published his first official adult 007 adventure. Set during King Charles III’s Coronation, On His Majesty’s Secret Service follows a James Bond who disapproves of anti-immigration talk and drinks kombucha. Recently the author has been engaging on social media with 007 …

Clive Myrie in Kyiv dodging Russian missile strikes (Image: BBC) It was TV presenter Alan Whicker who first inspired Clive Myrie to pursue a career in broadcasting. Growing up in Lancashire in the 1970s, his imagination was sparked by the long-running documentary series Whicker’s World. “Whicker would travel the globe …

Hampton Court, though no longer used as a royal residence, has seen centuries of regal drama (Image: Getty) Growing up at Hampton Court, young Prince George was utterly miserable. When his father died, he had become the charge of his grandfather, George II – a man of moderate intelligence, minimal …

Hollywood’s take on a megalodon on The Meg, (Image: ) Imagine an enormous shark weighing twice as much as a humpback whale. This giant predator is making its way through coastal waters off Africa: its body moving as if to the rhythm of a beating drum, its scythe-like fin, taller …

Chris Tarrant, a teacher-turned-TV-newsman (Image: Getty) The morning after the first episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? transmitted on 4th September 1998, a lorry-driver spotted Chris Tarrant walking through Wembley and cheerfully hollered, “Oi, Chris, phone a friend?” Twenty-five years later – and ten years after he stopped …

Child survivors at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland (Image: Getty) Imagine knowing your death is inevitable, and possibly imminent, only to be offered a lifeline so unlikely and unexpected it can only be described as a miracle. Yet such a miracle actually saved the lives of several thousand Jews …

Suchet at home, with his bookshelves fastidiously arranged by height. (Image: ) Why did the world fall so deeply in love with Sir David Suchet as Hercule Poirot? After all, the famous Belgian detective with whom he has become synonymous is a fastidious, pernickety and, whisper it, sometimes rather irritating …

Yesterday the long-awaited live-action adaptation of the world’s best-selling comic by volume landed on Netflix. One Piece, a swashbuckling fantasy about a young man’s quest to find a legendary treasure and become King of the Pirates, has been going as a Japanese manga since 1997. With over 1090 chapters to …

Eiichiro Oda may be the 10th best-selling fiction author in the history of the world, who’s not far behind JK Rowling’s sales, but is famously reclusive and rarely gives interviews. The creator of One Piece, the best-selling manga and comic by volume in the world, has been writing his pirate …

As George RR Martin continues to work away on The Winds of Winter, he occasionally takes a break to update fans on his news via his blog. Most recently the 74-year-old was honoured to discover that Vanity Fair has named a Game of Thrones episode he penned as one of …