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Book claims Freddie Mercury had a close relationship with his secret "daughter" until his death in 1991

"No one could have faked all this."

Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassing

For a life that could possibly be best described as eventful, a slim memoir can often run out of breath in reliving its sweep. This sense of life outpacing memory isn't surprising for the Oxford-educated tribal leader from the Chotanagpur plateau in Jharkhand (then in undivided Bihar), who went on…

When Jennifer Dulos vanished on May 24, 2019, in the middle of a contentious custody battle, the story focused on her estranged husband Fotis Dulos and his socialite girlfriend Michelle Troconis. Journalist Rich Cohen tells Andrea Cavallier that his new book Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story delves…

Late rock star apparently gave his daughter 17 volumes of detailed personal journals

The Queen frontman’s secret love child speaks out 48 years after her birth: 'He adored me and was devoted’

According to Love, Freddie, Queen frontman had close relationship with child conceived accidentally in 1976

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction with her translator Deepa Bhasthi for her collection of short stories about the lives of Muslim women. They explain why Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’

A girl with super strength; anarchic doughnuts on a mission to rule the world; boys in the Blitz; an Igbo YA fantasy and more