The gangster who saw the light – how Pastor Mick went from dealer to the divine | Books | Entertainment
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Pastor Mick’s (left) charity in Burnley (Image: PA) For the founder of Church on the Street is a former drug dealer and gangster, twice arrested on suspicion of murder, who turned his life around after finding his faith. With his dark glasses and dog collar, Pastor Mick Fleming made an unlikely More...
Lord of the Rings: Sauron may already be carrying out his plan in The Rings of Power | Books | Entertainment
Over the past month, the new Lord of the Rings TV show on Amazon Prime Video, The Rings of Power, has been quietly building towards all-out war. Various members of humanity and elvenkind have been worrying about More...
George Martin celebrates 74th birthday: What’s his progress with The Winds of Winter? | Books | Entertainment
It’s been 26 years since George RR Martin published his first A Song of Ice and Fire book, A Game of Thrones. Over the next few years, he was full steam ahead with A Clash of Kings following in 1998 and A More...
George RR Martin ‘vastly impressed’ by House of Dragon actor: ‘Better than Fire and Blood’ | Books | Entertainment
House of the Dragon is halfway through now with the two female leads Milly Alcock and Emily Carey being replaced in the roles of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower by Emma D’Arcy and Olivia More...
Fairy Tale review: Stephen King’s new novel a ‘spellbinding’ read | Books | Entertainment
The book begins in the real world as the 17-year-old struggles to come to terms with his mother’s death after a hit-and-run accident, while his grieving father is driven to alcohol. In a moment of desperation, More...
Hunter Davies: Late-life adventure left me with empty love nest | Books | Entertainment
Hunter Davies outside his new home in Ryde on the Isle of Wight (Image: Steve Reigate) Oh what a mess I have got myself into. It was daft enough at the age of 84 deciding to start a new life with a new woman More...
All the Broken Places review: compelling read derailed by over-the-top ending | Books | Entertainment
Steeped in grief and guilt and coloured by complicity and courage, it tells the story of Bruno’s elder sister, the long-widowed 91-year-old Gretel who is forced to confront the darkness of her family’s Nazi More...
Undoctored review: Adam Kay scrubs up well in life post-op | Books | Entertainment
His new career as script writer and comedian was much less stressful – “The stakes were so refreshingly low – there’s no formal inquiry when a joke dies” – but horribly slow to take off. Feeling More...
King Charles III wouldn’t be monarch with Iron Throne succession law: It would be this man | Books | Entertainment
After 70 years of waiting, King Charles III is now on the British throne following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon is currently on TV and full of the More...
Grace Kelly’s relative should be next King of England according to House of the Dragon | Books | Entertainment
King Charles III succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth II as British monarch last week, after an unprecedented 70 years on the throne. Yet if the UK had succession laws that skipped females like the Iron Throne More...
