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Stephen King never cashed out his $5,000 rights check for the Shawshank Redemption.  The author’s 1982 novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption inspired the film that was released in 1994.  It was made known that years after the film was released, Stephen King decided to give his rights check back …

George RR Martin has been working on his penultimate book in his hit A Song of Ice and Fire series since 2011. In that time, the Game of Thrones TV adaptation has been and gone, with the showrunners having to rely on his bullet point planned plot points for the …

Sir David Attenborough has spent more than seven decades bringing the natural world into people’s living rooms. As the face and voice of landmark BBC series like Life on Earth, The Blue Planet, and Planet Earth, he’s inspired generations to care about animals, conservation and the climate. Knighted in 1985 …

A new statue of famous crime writer Agatha Christie has been unveiled in a beautiful UK seaside area that was also her hometown. The statue, by local artist Elisabeth Hadley, has been revealed in the town of Torquay.  The statue depicts the author, who was born in Torquay in 1890, …

It has been over a decade since A Dance with Dragons was published, and George RR Martin is still writing The Winds of Winter. The penultimate novel in fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Game of Thrones TV show, is expected to be …

Sir Terry Pratchett was one of Britain’s best-loved authors, and  a master of comic fantasy. His Discworld novels sold over 100 million copies worldwide, and in them, from 1983 to 2015, he built a sprawling fictional universe where magic and satire collided, and even Death had a dry sense of …

Best-selling author James Patterson has published and co-authored over 200 novels in 50 years (Image: Getty) James Patterson is one of the most prolific and celebrated authors of the modern era. With over 400 million copies sold worldwide and more than 100 New York Times bestsellers to his name, he …

Since first airing on ITV in 2021, Grace has become a primetime TV favourite – following the cases investigated by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and presenting his stories to a new audience. The show, starring John Simm, is based on the bestselling crime novels written by Peter James, one of …

Hunger Games fans are clamouring for more tales from Panem following last month’s release of Sunrise on the Reaping. Although readers are pleading for a sixth book, Suzanne Collins and her publishing team have remained tight-lipped about the possibility of another addition to the saga. This hasn’t quelled fan theories …

Legendary horror author Stephen King appeared on a talk show where he surprised fans by revealing his personal top five favourite stories that he’s written himself. Known for a career that spans decades and includes more than 60 novels and 200 short stories, narrowing it down couldn’t have been easy. …