News about Paula Hawkins

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.

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.