News about Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train that sold 23 million copies, on her scary new thriller The Blue Hour
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October 5, 2024
Writing romance wasn't for Paula Hawkins. But her dark imaginings turned The Girl on the Train author's life around, as she tells Sam Baker
Stephen Fry is back with his new Grecian offering and joins Jodi Picoult and Paula Hawkins in the best Popular fiction out this month
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October 4, 2024
Wendy Holden reviews the best Popular fiction out this month: Odyssey by Stephen Fry, By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult, and The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Duchess of Bedford becomes New Zealand citizen at the age of 84 because 'England doesn't feel like it used to'
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May 4, 2024
Her beauty propelled her into Country Life magazine as one of its 'girls in pearls' and to the threshold of a film career, only for her to renounce 'lights, camera, action!' in favour of marrying the future 14th Duke of Bedford, owner of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, with its 24 priceless Canalettos, not to mention a safari park. But, now aged 84, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford has undertaken her latest transformation. Henrietta's become a Kiwi - taking New Zealand citizenship. The Duchess found the initiation ceremony a particular pleasure. 'I didn't realise I was going to have to pay allegiance to King Charles,' she says. 'Such a lovely feeling.' Explaining her reasons for emigrating, she says: 'It feels like England used to. England doesn't feel like it used to when I was a child.' As a debutante in 1957, her parents held a party for her at Claridge's in a room transformed into a nightclub, its walls studded with silk butterflies.
Angela Marsons was rejected by publishers for 25 years and even told not to set her books in her beloved Black Country - but has now sold millions and is set for BBC TV fame
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April 2, 2024
Since releasing millions of digital copies of her books around the world, Angela Marsons isn't exactly a household name. The author, 55, who lives in the Black Country, an area of England's West Midlands, found success after being picked up by digital publishers Bookouture, now an imprint of Hachette in 2014. Angela's journey wasn't always smooth, with the security manager-turned-writer having received hundreds of rejection letters from publishers over the years. She was even advised against writing her books in her beloved Black Country, which includes industrial areas such as Dudley, Walsall, and West Bromwich. Kim Stone, a 'detective hiding dark secrets who would do everything to shield the innocent,' has now sold over 5.5 million copies, according to The Telegraph, and is now available on the BBC.