Books

Stephen King has released many well-known books. From ‘The Shining,’ to ‘IT,’ to ‘Cujo’ and so many more, he’s firmly ingrained in popular culture. But some of his books never quite got the popularity they deserved, and sometimes, that’s because King decided to write under pseudonym. His pen name was …

You really can’t beat the feeling of truly getting stuck in a book. Not being able to drag yourself away from a story is the best sign that it’s a good one, and for many people, a psychological thriller is their go-to. If you love a book with an eerie, …

A defence expert believes a 1928 novel which was adapted into a film is the “greatest of all war novels”. Dr Michael Shurkin, an expert in European defence and West African politics and security, revealed his 10 favourite war novels. The novel that topped his list is WW1 German soldier …

Melita Norwood outside her home in Southeast London after being exposed as a KGB spy (Image: PA) In the autumn of 1992, a man called Vasili Mitrokhin fled Russia with a bag full of secrets. He had worked as a senior archivist for the KGB for much of the Cold …

Award-winning thriller writer M W Craven has been revealed as the author of a new James Bond action-series for children – sending the world’s best-known secret agent back to school to train the next generation of British spies. James Bond and the Secret Agent Academy, filled with “courage, cleverness, and …

Filmmaker and composer John Carpenter has been dubbed a ‘master of the horror genre’, having written both Halloween and Halloween II, also serving as director on the first of these. He has also directed a number of other horror favourites, including The Thing, Vampires, and a 1983 adaptation of Stephen …

Author Gary Wright in hospital where he is recovering from near-fatal sepsis (Image: Courtesy Gary Wright) Sepsis is a killer. I know this first hand, having attended the funeral of an old acquaintance a few years back. And in the past six months or so, it has been prominent in …

There’s nothing I love more than a bildungsroman – a novel where the protagonist comes of age and learns some important life lessons along the way. Celine Saintclare’s first novel, ‘Sugar, Baby,’ fell into that genre – and it went viral on TikTok. Agnes was a messy main character who …

British forces advancing across the Falkland Islands ahead of battle (Image: Getty) The terrain is harsh, it’s pitch black and the weather is brutal. The Royal Marines are pinned down by heavy and accurate enemy fire. They are 8,000 miles from home, soaking wet, exhausted, outnumbered and about to assault …

Book clubs are a great way of socialising while also getting to discover new reads. But often with book clubs, it is new releases or the most talked about book of the moment that becomes the selection. But people could be missing a trick, book clubs could be the perfect …