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A HOOD who helped flood Scotland with cocaine faces being hauled back to jail — after he was caught with £16,000 in his Paddy Power account. Fergus Smith had been hit with a super-Asbo to ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball.

A group of divers have found a cargo of old Glasgow pottery after discovering a shipwreck off the west coast of Scotland. Diver Graeme Bruce, 65, from Oban made the discovery in July 2024 ...

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Laurence Rees asks: Are we in danger of history repeating itself? The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

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