Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86 | Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86 | Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth, the author who turned his adventures as a journalist and work with MI6 into bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness aged 86. Forsyth brought a reporter’s eye to... Read more »
Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86 | Frederick Forsyth

Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 23rd

“We have no concrete idea what we did, what comes next, or what it means for the globe, but other than that it was a spectacular military success!” Source link Read more »
Poem of the week: The Song of Arachnid by Gillian Allnutt | Poetry

Poem of the week: The Song of Arachnid by Gillian Allnutt | Poetry

The Song of Arachnid Webs are small and spacious as simplicity,See-through as a summer’s day, old-fashioned as A slip of butter-muslin, girlhood’s own, orA cotton hanky. We are poor predators, love to... Read more »
Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon | Edinburgh international book festival

Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon | Edinburgh international book festival

The Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later this summer with events involving Hanif Kureishi, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and an exiled Brazilian tribal leader. The... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 9th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 9th

“Don’t worry, there’s been no extensive testing done on this crap.” Source link Read more »
Tom Gauld on choosing the perfect books for a summer holiday – cartoon

Tom Gauld on choosing the perfect books for a summer holiday – cartoon

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 9th

Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer | Charles Dickens

As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary history. Passionate about the theatre, Charles Dickens, then just 20, wrote to the famous... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 10th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 10th

“The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?” Source link Read more »
Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86 | Frederick Forsyth

Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now | Books

Illustration: Nathalie Lees/Xxx Fiction Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA rich exploration of female experience, Adichie’s first novel in 10 years charts the lives and loves of four women in Nigeria and... Read more »
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