News about Sylvia Plath

TikTok Book Awards have returned for a second year, revealing a new cohort of BookTokkers from across the globe competing for the title of BookTok creator of the year. BookTok - a space on TikTok exclusively dedicated to creative writing - has gained such momentum in recent years that the app has reintroduced its book awards in the UK and Ireland this year. (Pictured from L to R Masie Matilda, Bill Wood and Abby's Books)

The Met Gala is one of the biggest nights in fashion and is held at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each year has a different theme with models and A-list celebrities showcasing dazzling outfits from top designers. The 2024 event, held on Monday, was themed 'Garden of Time', taken from a short story from J.G. Ballard's short story of the same name. Writing on Twitter /X, Waterstones said: 'With a theme like The Garden of Time, there's no way we could resist matching the 2024 Met Gala #LooksToBooks!'

While many contestants on the show are often lambasted for their poor performances , recent champion Nam Nguyen spoke out to defend one of his challengers, revealing that she was at a grave 'disadvantage' because of a simple error. Nam, a playwright from Ontario, came out on top in the Jeopardy! episode that aired on Monday, April 22, beating reigning champ Marko Saric, as well as challenger Elly Trickett (right). The first-time player took home $26,999 - even after getting the Final Jeopardy! answer wrong.

ROBERT HARDMAN: It's the last traces of a house before you are truly out on the 'new, windy moors,' as Kate Bush recalled in her spectacular 1978 debut single of the same name, one that brought Wuthering Heights to a largely new, late twentieth-century audience. It's a delight - though some would say "spooky" or even "Gothic" - coincidence that both Bronte and Bush were born on the same day exactly 140 years ago. Fans of both football and basketball are still here on July 30 in honor of their homage. But will they in years to come?

ALISON BOSHOFF: James Norton's (left) career took a dramatic turn in the form of his appearance as psychopath and sexual predator Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley - the final of the year's most watched television shows of the year. In a sad new portrait of poet laureate Ted Hughes (right), who will be depicted as a monster with 'coerce control,' it can be revealed that he is trying to portray another'serial killer' Yorkshireman.' Hughes, who died in 1998, is a figure of fascination for rising TV writer Grace Ofori-Attah, and she has compelled Cambridge University friend Norton to join her on an amazing television drama about his life. Ruth Wilson (top inset) will play Assia Wevill (bottom inset), Hughes' mistress. The series will be based on Lover Of Unreason, a book about Wevill's life, as well as a series of letters from Hughes' first wife, Sylvia Plath, to her mother. In 1956, Hughes married American writer Plath. At the age of 30, she committed suicide in 1963.

The Book of the Week, Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, asks if artists stand accused of doing or saying of doing or saying something awful, are we allowed to carry on enjoying their art?

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter discusses the fondness for animals and the ease with which caring for a magpie named George. 'I felt more at home with animals and birds than I did people,' she says. 'It began with the family cat when I was about four years old.'

The magpie chick fell in love with the tiny, wild creature that would change her whole life. The nest had blown apart in high winds, and the tiny, furious bird, which had barely survived after being killed by Hughes' spade, was the only one of three chicks to live longer than a day.

Halifax has risen in importance over the last year, with the number of people going to the market town up by more than 3% in a year. According to figures, its esteem has risen by 12 percent more than that of any other place, with Weymouth, Dorset, coming in second place at 18%. Experts point to the area's declining popularity as house prices in Hebden Bridge, another hot spot in the Happy Valley, have fallen by 15% this year, with locals blaming the area's becoming a tourist trap.

After the airing of Happy Valley's last episode, Thomas W Hodgkinson ventures to the Yorkshire town where much of the episode was shot in order to get a 'fix' for the Happy Valley.' 'My visit is nothing like an episode of Happy Valley,' he says, adding: "No one sells me drugs from an ice cream van.' A prison escapee hasn't stabbed me in the neck.'

Welcome to the mighty Pennines, to the town that is unifying light and shadow, good and evil, and more than eight million television viewers in a sweeping showdown: BBC One's Happy Valley's series finale will be released tomorrow night. This is Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, where I have lived for the past decade.

This semi-autobiographical story about Esther Greenwood, a 19-year-old student spiraling into depression and suicide attempts, is raw and, at times, grim. She feels suffocated after receiving an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953: 'Wherever I sat.' . .. I'd be stewing in my sour air as I sat under the same glass bell jar.'

A woman has shared a 'highly regrettable' snippet of a diary entry written by her 15-year-old self admitting to a bizarre occurrence on Christmas Day. Mackenzie Thomas, 23, from the United States, posted the video on TikTok and told FEMAIL she's content to laugh at herself. 'I've always been a weird person, and I'm glad that I reported it,' she said.