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‘I’m in great danger – you have to get me out immediately!’ The dramatic…
Vladimir Kuzichkin – codename Redwood – was a Russian superspy operating in Iran who secretly switched to the West in the hope that doctors there would find a cure for his sexual impotence. In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, best-selling…
The Russian spy boss who turned traitor to save his sexless marriage: He knew the KGB
In Saturday's Daily Mail, best-selling author Ben Macintyre began the extraordinary story of the Soviet spy who switched sides in a desperate search for a cure for his sexual impotence. In return he offered a stunning and unprecedented…
What will the world really look like when robots are doing everything for us?
Breakfast With Robots by Joel Levy (Michael O’Mara Books £16.99, 224pp)By MARCUS BERKMANN Published: 05:00 EDT, 13 September 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 13 September 2026 <!--
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‘Men with amputated legs make the best lovers.’ the outrageous life and lines of Dame
Dame Barbara Cartland wrote 723 novels. Except she didn’t. Rather than putting pen to paper, Barbara, recumbent on a couch and clutching a lapdog, dictated for hours to a secretary, who took it all down, 7,000 words a session, a book…
The greatest classic crime novels ever written…Barry Turner picks his three all time
By BARRY TURNER Published: 12:00 EDT, 10 September 2026 | Updated: 12:00 EDT, 10 September 2026 <!--
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Fabulous, compelling and wonderful…best debuts out this month: Bad Words by Rioghnach
By SARA LAWRENCE Published: 12:10 EDT, 10 September 2026 | Updated: 12:10 EDT, 10 September 2026 <!--
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The GRUFFALO returns! Sally Morris reviews the best children’s books out now: GRUFFALO
By SALLY MORRIS Published: 12:20 EDT, 10 September 2026 | Updated: 12:20 EDT, 10 September 2026 <!--
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Midlife crisis? Get a COW not a car
Journalist Fiona Moss swapped her inner city apartment for ten acres of the Scottish highlands to fulfil a life long dream...raising Highland cattle.
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‘Absolute brilliance’ Anthony Cummins picks the best literary fiction out now: DODGE…
By ANTHONY CUMMINS Published: 12:05 EDT, 10 September 2026 | Updated: 13:09 EDT, 10 September 2026 <!--
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I eat a grain of my mother, Diana Rigg’s, ashes before all my opening nights…the only
A bottle of Prosecco in Dame Diana’s trailer. That clause was written into Diana Rigg’s contract when she played the Duchess of Buccleuch in ITV’s Victoria at the age of 79.Still oozing charisma and bursting with acting vigour, she had…