Did a British secret agent kill Rasputin? Has mystery of the mad monk finally been solved?
For more than a century, historians have claimed Tsarist nobles murdered the power-mad peasant-turned-mystic. Now a sensational new book claims it was actually an Englishman who finished the mad monk off with a bullet to the head. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Not every Briton in India was a sinner …and not every Indian was a saint
As he becomes the first Anglo-Asian author to be the chairman of the prestigious Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Vaseem Khan reflects on the shadow of Empire and why we should all learn from the More...
Did sex cult snub drive frustrated loner to murder a US president?
Charles Julius Guiteau assassinated former US President James Abram Garfield. Guiteau spent his years spent in one of the most bizarre religious cults of that century. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
The world’s best – known extreme tourist and his holidays in hell
EXCLUSIVE: Bullets, suicide bombings and Black Hawk Down, builder turned ‘extreme tourist’ Andrew Drury visits some of the most dangerous places on the planet for fun… even the locals think he’s More...
Australia’s not all Neighbours, barbecues and beaches, says Jane Harper
EXCLUSIVE: There’s a darker side too, and thank goodness for that, says Anglo-Aussie crime novelist Jane Harper as a modern version of the ‘Ten Pound Poms’ scheme seeks to entice an entire new generation More...
Why did Martin Luther King’s assassin declare his innocence until the day he died?
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was killed on a Memphis motel balcony leading to an international manhunt. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
One in four Brits only get the chance to read while on holiday, study finds
Over half of Brits would like to read more – but feel they are too busy in their day-to-day lives. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Snow White and Cinderella under attack from Ladybird books’ woke sensitivity readers
Classic fairy tales like Snow White and Cinderella are proving “problematic” for promoting all sorts of privileges to impressionable young children, according to Ladybird books’ sensitivity readers. Daily More...
Review: The Carnelian Tree – when Oxford meets Iraq
It’s 2003 and Glasgow schoolteacher Judith Frazer is taking a sabbatical to study among Oxford’s gleaming spires and is sharing a house with a motley crew of people including a wealthy American, a spy, More...
Some of UK’s favourite bedtime stories for children are decades old
Julia Donaldson’s titles make up more than 50 per cent of the UK’s most loved bedtime stories for children. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...