Simon Callow says Rupert the Bear helped him read as he backs Express books campaign
Simon Callow can remember vividly the day, aged six, he learned how to read. It’s a day that changed his life forever. “I actually started quite late,” admits the award-winning actor and director, best-known for roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Amadeus and Shakespeare in Love. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Top author says ‘books save lives’ as she launches Daily Express Christmas campaign
As she launches the Daily Express Christmas fundraising campaign in aid of Give A Book, Lady Antonia Fraser recalls the joy of being the first person to hear her late husband Harold Pinter’s plays, her enduring More...
‘I’ve been planning to kill Bosch for years’ Michael Connelly on Harry’s fate
Bestselling crime writer Michael Connelly has revealed he might kill off his main character Harry Bosch. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Anthony Horowitz calls for investment in school libraries as he receives CBE
Novelist Anthony Horowitz has called for a library in every school and praised the Queen Consort’s literary campaigning after he picked up a CBE at Windsor Castle. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Is this Shakespeare? £10million painting could be only one in his lifetime
This previously unseen portrait is not a bard likeness of Shakespeare – as experts believe it is the only ‘signed and dated’ painting of the playwright in his lifetime. Daily Express :: Books More...
Watership Down… why Fiver, Hazel and Bigwig are rabbiting on
Richard Adams’ glorious tale of talking rabbits has entranced generations of readers and sold 50 million copies. As it celebrates its half-century, his daughters tell how he dreamed up the story to enliven More...
Come back Boris! Support for former PM in Ukraine still strong
Admiration for the former British PM remains strong in the war-torn country, says its most famous living author as he talks about his uplifting and utterly defiant diary of the Russian invasion. Daily Express :: More...
‘I was shot in the neck and paralysed in Afghanistan – but now I see I’m the lucky one’
On Sunday, ex-special forces soldier Toby Gutteridge will celebrate Remembrance Sunday at the base where he served in the Special Boat Service before he was wounded during his second tour of Afghanistan in 2009 More...
More than a third of children don’t feel represented in the books they read, study finds
More than a third of children don’t feel represented in the books they read – because of their gender or ethnicity. Research of 1,000 children aged six to 12, and their parents, revealed eight in ten More...
The supersonic aircraft that scraped the edge of space
Nearly two decades after the Concorde fleet was grounded for good, a former chief pilot tells the remarkable story of the ahead-of-its-time jet plane that carried 2.5 million passengers to New York and back while More...