Prince Philip met Queen Elizabeth when he was 18 (she was 13). Immediately smitten, the pair would form a bond incredibly quickly that proved to stand the test...
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Virago Modern Classics has announced a new hardback edition of Daphne du Maurier's supernatural short stories, After Midnight: Thirteen Chilling Tales for the...
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Per the author's desire to mock up a vision of what the UK might have looked like later in the decade, the brilliantly named Rule Britannia is...
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The story has obvious Fifty Shades of Grey vibes – a hot wealthy man meets a young vulnerable woman who comes under his power.
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What begins as a taste for her twisty plots, briny wit and bracingly bleak view of marriage becomes an addiction (and one that can withstand some very purple...
87 months ago

The propulsive tale of a famously unnamed first-person narrator who marries a mysterious older widower and finds herself pulled into his past, “...
69 months ago

Creator and writer Helen Black (Time) cited Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca, which went on to be adapted by Alfred Hitchcock and much later by Ben...
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Rebecca puts readers face-to-face with our own mortality and the reality of evil, including the evil in our own hearts.
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BBC Radio 4 has announced a fortnight of special programming dedicated to the work of the 20th century writer.
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A chance encounter with at a French railway station leads a lonely English academic into assuming the presence and personality of an enigmatic French...
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