14+ hour, 27+ min ago   (829+ words) True crime has been a reliable staple of publishing for 150 years or so. While it never really goes out of fashion, the genre in recent times seems to have become especially ubiquitous. It’s on television practically every night, a flood…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (552+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Paul Handley considers an indictment of today’s life for many children SINCE a core theme of this book is the power of stories, Frank Cottrell-Boyce will forgive the recounting of an anecdote from the preface that stays with…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (226+ words) Lifestyle program The House of Wellness is back for a fourth season, returning to Seven and 7plus from 15 September. Hosts Mel Doyle and Shane Crawford are back at the helm, joined by new panellists Dr Michela Sorensen and comedian Sam Taunton....

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (324+ words) Delft University of Technology and Radboud University study: over 3,000 references to The Beatles songs found in academic publications. Researchers from Delft University of Technology and Radboud University in the Netherlands have discovered more than three thousand references to songs by…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (459+ words) Among the musical luminaries of the 1960s, Bob Dylan is generally the one most closely associated with the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, as the two artists became fast friends back in the early Greenwich Village days, and would go on to…...

4+ day, 8+ min ago   (563+ words) Southport is to become a living storybook for the October half-term as Books Alive! brings a world of imagination and adventure to the town. This free kids' festival will take place from October 24 to 31, bringing children's stories to life with…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (557+ words) Giant Freakin Robot Sci-fi has a habit of predicting how horrible the future will become in a few years. While it’s common for writers to envision the creative and horrible ways technology can endanger human life sometimes it’s very obvious…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (240+ words) But the wellness industry comes for you, whether you want it to or not. I live in New York City and am bombarded with people walking around in technical clothing, as if this great city is one big workout class....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (449+ words) The designation highlights the collection’s cultural and research value. It is the largest repository of science fiction materials in Europe and one of the most significant collections of its kind anywhere in the world. The award places it alongside a…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (69+ words) The Times Miss Marple is back — and ‘she’s much darker than people realise’ The crime writer Lucy Foley fell under the spell of Agatha Christie aged 12. Now she has written the first Miss Marple novel in 50 years — stand aside, Poirot…...