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[ad_1] Osman never thought he would become one of the world’s best-selling authors (Image: Getty) Steven Spielberg has optioned his book series for the big screen, but if Osman is starstruck by this turn of events, he isn’t showing it. The 52-year-old creator of quizzes and former co-host of BBC’s …

[ad_1] Peggy, the hedgehog (Image: ) It was my toddler grandson Billy who first spotted the hedgehog in the autumn of 2021, caught in a net we used to clear debris from our pond. We tried to shake it free but it gave only the slightest tremor. My husband, Kim, …

[ad_1] Clive Myrie in Kyiv dodging Russian missile strikes (Image: BBC) It was TV presenter Alan Whicker who first inspired Clive Myrie to pursue a career in broadcasting. Growing up in Lancashire in the 1970s, his imagination was sparked by the long-running documentary series Whicker’s World. “Whicker would travel the …

[ad_1] Earlier this year Young Bond novel writer Charlier Higson published his first official adult 007 adventure. Set during King Charles III’s Coronation, On His Majesty’s Secret Service follows a James Bond who disapproves of anti-immigration talk and drinks kombucha. Recently the author has been engaging on social media with …

[ad_1] Eiichiro Oda may be the 10th best-selling fiction author in the history of the world, who’s not far behind JK Rowling’s sales, but is famously reclusive and rarely gives interviews. The creator of One Piece, the best-selling manga and comic by volume in the world, has been writing his …

[ad_1] Hampton Court, though no longer used as a royal residence, has seen centuries of regal drama (Image: Getty) Growing up at Hampton Court, young Prince George was utterly miserable. When his father died, he had become the charge of his grandfather, George II – a man of moderate intelligence, …

[ad_1] Hollywood’s take on a megalodon on The Meg, (Image: ) Imagine an enormous shark weighing twice as much as a humpback whale. This giant predator is making its way through coastal waters off Africa: its body moving as if to the rhythm of a beating drum, its scythe-like fin, …

[ad_1] Chris Tarrant, a teacher-turned-TV-newsman (Image: Getty) The morning after the first episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? transmitted on 4th September 1998, a lorry-driver spotted Chris Tarrant walking through Wembley and cheerfully hollered, “Oi, Chris, phone a friend?” Twenty-five years later – and ten years after he …

[ad_1] Child survivors at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland (Image: Getty) Imagine knowing your death is inevitable, and possibly imminent, only to be offered a lifeline so unlikely and unexpected it can only be described as a miracle. Yet such a miracle actually saved the lives of several thousand …

[ad_1] Suchet at home, with his bookshelves fastidiously arranged by height. (Image: ) Why did the world fall so deeply in love with Sir David Suchet as Hercule Poirot? After all, the famous Belgian detective with whom he has become synonymous is a fastidious, pernickety and, whisper it, sometimes rather …