The Daily Express Viking! Our former environmental editor writes entrancing Icelandic saga
EXCLUSIVE: Vikings are everywhere in Reykjavik. On the shore is a wonderful steel statue of a life-size longship, the Sun Voyager, which looks out across the bay to mountains lurking like whales coming up for air. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Serial killer Robert Black died alone and unloved leaving a trail of misery and heartache
It’s 2016, a chilly January morning. The man was old now, a year shy of his 70th birthday. How much the world had changed around him as he remained the same. It had been over two decades since his incarceration More...
My racy reads are too shocking for today’s audiences, says Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper is worried that modern audiences may be a bit too square to enjoy the mature content of her 1980s best-seller Rivals. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
No man is an island but I’ve had a good go, says author Robert Twigger
Having cut his teeth by navigating the Sahara, Robert Twigger embraced a childhood love of Swallows And Amazons for his latest adventure… visiting all 36 Lake District islets armed only with an inflatable More...
Evelyn Waugh’s mansion sells or £3m as tenant refuses to leave
A ‘superfan’ of writer Evelyn Waugh has vowed to stay living at the author’s family home, even though it has been sold to a mystery bidder for more than £3million. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Winds of Winter release: George RR Martin confesses how many pages he has left to write
Game of Thrones author George RR Martin was called “truly pathetic” for his Winds of Winter delay, during a new interview. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
When the cell door slammed shut, all I had were books
Alex Wheatle can still remember the “jangling of keys” as the heavy door slammed closed behind him. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Top author says ‘books save lives’ as she launches Daily Express Christmas campaign
As she launches the Daily Express Christmas fundraising campaign in aid of Give A Book, Lady Antonia Fraser recalls the joy of being the first person to hear her late husband Harold Pinter’s plays, her enduring More...
Anthony Horowitz calls for investment in school libraries as he receives CBE
Novelist Anthony Horowitz has called for a library in every school and praised the Queen Consort’s literary campaigning after he picked up a CBE at Windsor Castle. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
The supersonic aircraft that scraped the edge of space
Nearly two decades after the Concorde fleet was grounded for good, a former chief pilot tells the remarkable story of the ahead-of-its-time jet plane that carried 2.5 million passengers to New York and back while More...
