Category: Books

Between 1997 and 2007, JK Rowling published her seven Harry Potter novels, which became the best-selling book series of all time. The fantasy series about a wizard school boy has…

Writer Jo Callaghan, winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 (Image: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian for Daily Express) Picking up her prize – £3,000 and…

Currently No 1 this week in the Amazon charts is Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid. Described as “an absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist”, this first book in The…

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…

George RR Martin has been working on the penultimate Game of Thrones book The Winds of Winter for the last 13 years. Over the past week, the 75-year-old has been…

This week marks 13 years since the publication of A Dance with Dragons, the latest book in A Song of Ice and Fire. Since then the Game of Thrones TV…

It’s been 13 years since George RR Martin last published a book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. The Game of Thrones TV series has come and…

Harry Potter fans found themselves in stitches, discovering what they have dubbed the “greatest-ever” translation of the beloved series, of which many were completely unaware. Highland influencer Trinix D Morrison…

Summer is officially here and for many of us that’s a time to get out into the sunshine. It can be a great time to get some reading done but…

Geezer on stage in 1973 (Image: Getty) Nobody expected an explosion, let alone a mortar bomb. It was 1980, the year after Black Sabbath had sacked Ozzy Osbourne, and the…