Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries rewritten by sensitivity readers
Agatha Christie’s classic Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have had passages reworked or cut entirely in new editions. Daily Express :: Books Feed
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
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 past, not heedlessly tear it down Daily Express :: Books Feed
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
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 bonkers. Daily Express :: Books Feed
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 of British workers Down Under. Daily Express :: Books Feed
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
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
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 Express :: Books Feed
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, a professor and a gay student. Daily Express :: Books Feed