Irvine Welsh has been revealed as one of the special guests at the world’s most prestigious celebration of crime writing this summer.The Trainspotting author joins the likes…

Slow Horses creator Mick Herron has been honoured with the highest accolade in crime writing – the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger.The prestigious award recognises authors…

Luke Arnold, centre, as Martin Scarsden in hit BBC adaptation of Chris Hammer’s Scrublands against b (Image: BBC / Easy Tiger / Getty / AP)Being a political…

Conservationists Gerald and Lee Durrell with lemurs at Jersey Zoo in 1987 (Image: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.)The legendary naturalist Gerald Durrell once noted that “so-called human progress…

The last time George RR Martin published a novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series was in 2011 when Game of Thrones was debuting…

Dave Rowntree, Damon Albarn, Alex James and Graham Coxon of Blur (Image: Getty Images)Blur bassist Alex James has revealed how the band was fined £20,000 for smoking…

To order any of the books of featured visit expressbookshop.com or call Express Bookshop on 020 3176 3832. Free UK P&P on orders over £25Sir Ian Rankin, above,…

To order any of the books of featured visit expressbookshop.com or call Express Bookshop on 020 3176 3832. Free UK P&P on orders over £25Wyndham and Bannerjee creator…

A spokesperson for the website said: "For the second year running, Prince Harry's Spare is the most traded-in biography of 2024."This year, we purchased a total of…

Youngsters have traditionally found joy in using paints and pencils – but now they can also generate images and words by pressing a few keys on computers…