Books

Mary Berry is one of the most iconic faces in the UK food and television industry. Berry is an English food writer, chef, baker and television presenter. Her love for cooking began in school, where she was encouraged in domestic science classes and then went on to study catering at …

It was six years ago this week when HBO hit TV show Game of Thrones aired its last episode. Since George RR Martin hadn’t written the final two books in his A Song of Ice Fire series, the showrunners had to rely on his planned plot points for The Winds …

Stephen King is a household name, and he was certainly big in my house when I was growing up. As far as I can recall, my first Stephen King book was IT, which I read when I was in college, and it genuinely changed the way I look at books.  …

A book that’s a well-known household name and was a favourite for many during childhood has been getting rave reviews online. Charlotte’s Web is a children’s novel by E.B. White that tells the story of Wilbur, a pig who is saved from slaughter by a young girl named Fern. When …

It’s time to start pondering over what to gift dad for Father’s Day, but – notoriously – dads are a tough crowd to please. They likely have all the gardening tools, cycling gear, gaming accessories and golf kit they could ever want, making the hunt for a small yet significant …

He’s been called Britain’s most opinionated man, and the king of the Sunday night sofa. The former TV host turned Amazon star has made a career out of being blunt, whether it’s by crashing supercars or managing wayward sheep on Clarkson’s Farm. But behind the rants about cyclists and the …

Reading is something I try to do every day, even if that’s only a couple of pages on particularly busy days. One genre I always find myself drifting back to is fantasy, which is one I have loved ever since I was a child. Now all these years later, this …

Stephen King has written more than 60 novels and 200 short stories, with countless adaptations making him the undisputed king of horror. But even legends have regrets – and for King, few works haunt him more than Dreamcatcher, the 2001 sci-fi-horror epic he penned in the context of trauma and …

As a self-confessed bookworm, and someone who rarely watches TV, I read anything up to five books a week, and sometimes even more. By my reckoning, I’ve read at least 5,000 books since I was a teenager. I read fast and tend to gulp down everything by an author once …

There’s nothing worse for a reader than committing to a book and, after making it through hundreds of pages, being left with a disappointing ending. Luckily, fellow readers on the Goodreads platform have come together to share their opinion on the book with the best ending.  And after the vote …