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May 11, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Jane Warren |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
This is a contrast with Dean’s own childhood in a hard-working family from which his reinvention as a best-selling Scandi-noir thriller writer seemed unlikely, to say the least. His father was an insurance salesman; his mother a nursery assistant. “My parents never read, there were never any books in my house whatsoever. But my mother did take me to the local mobile library. They thought I was the black sheep of the family. Before me, no-one had gone to university or done A-Levels.
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May 8, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | George Simpson |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
It’s been 12 years since George RR Martin last published a book in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. Since Game of Thrones concluded four years ago, the 74-year-old has been reassuring his fans that he’s working hard on the next book, The Winds of Winter. He also claimed to have made significant progress during the lockdowns of the pandemic. So whenever the author shares a blog update on how he’s getting on, fans are eager to hear any news.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Alex Green |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
2023 shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction hails older writers. Link copied Bookmark Half of the 2023 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction is made up of debut novels from older writers – with the youngest of them aged 49. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris and Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks were all picked – in a blow to literary ageism that often leads younger talents to be promoted as more exciting.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Callum Crumlish |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
Rebecca Alford, one of Wob's experts, "lives and breathes" books. As a bookseller, she has rehomed almost 16 million books in the last year and recently found that over a quarter of the UK (33 percent) settle into bed with a book each night. And it's no coincidence, either. There are some major benefits to this, Rebecca claims, on top of being enraptured in mystical, faraway lands or brushing up on history and events. First and foremost? It's relaxing. Actually, clinically relaxing.
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Apr 21, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Matt Nixon |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
An elite secret unit of highly trained investigators aimed at rooting out corrupt police and their criminal conspirators. Allegations of misconduct bedevilling a force. And a network of private messaging apps where officers trade shameful information.
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Apr 21, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Jane Warren |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
So, rather than say, “Put your arm around me and let’s go for a walk”, Manni will say to Reuben, “Put your hand on my mane and let’s walk a while together”. These are words that Aslan [the noble lion in CS Lewis’s 1950 classic], uses with one of the children who venture out of the back of the wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia. Creating a structure for their often challenging days together was vital.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Hannah Stephenson |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
The 61-year-old novelist and screenwriter says: “Joanna is shockingly down to earth and kind. Everyone on set just loves her. “I was up on set in Manchester yesterday and they were all giddy over how nice she was – and they’re all hoping for a scene with Joanna.”Fool Me Once tells the tale of a military combat pilot (Michelle Keegan) suffering from PTSD. Her husband (Richard Armitage) is murdered. But, as with all Coben’s work, nothing is quite as it seems.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | George Simpson |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
Young Bond author Charlie Higson is the author of what is his first ever adult 007 book. The novel, aptly titled On His Majesty’s Secret Service, is set for release on May 4, two days before the Coronation and actually begins its setting on that day. The official synopsis reads: “It is the 4th of May, two days before the Coronation of King Charles III and the world's favourite spy has his work cut out for him.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | George Simpson |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
Martin, who will be an Executive Producer on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, has written three Dunk and Egg novellas to date which can be adapted for the show but realises he needs to find the time to pen the others. There are around six more in the pipeline. He wrote on his blog: “If THE HEDGE KNIGHT turns out as well as we hope it will, our hope would be to go on and adapt THE SWORN SWORD and THE MYSTERY KNIGHT as well. That will take a few years. Then comes the hard part.
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Apr 13, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | George Simpson |Dick King-Smith's great-granddaughter
A new Game of Thrones TV prequel series has been announced called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, based on George RR Martin's Dunk and Egg books. Here's what it's about and when it's set.
