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'Fearless' Irish author Edna O'Brien dies aged 93
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 16 hours agoBorn in rural County Clare in 1930, O'Brien found her education by nuns suffocating and moved to Dublin to escape, subsequently spending much of her life...
At Long Last: ‘House of the Dragon’ S2, E7 Is Pure Dragon Nirvana
Esquire· 7 hours agoHBO must have heard me last season. In just about every House ofthe Dragon recap, I loudly...
Actress finds she has the magic touch with Music Theatre Wichita’s ‘Matilda’
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoMrs. Trunchbull, however, remains British. “She could be at any private school in Kansas and be from...
'Human stories are always about one thing – death': Why the shadow of death and WW1 hang over The...
BBC News· 2 hours agoIn a 1968 interview, the BBC spoke to author JRR Tolkien about his experiences during World War One,...
Katie Piper admits her kids 'troll' her over children's books
Yahoo TV UK· 6 days agoBut Piper told This Morning...admitting that they are "like my trolls". Katie Piper spoke about how...
A Florida school district banned ‘Ban This Book.’ Author says that’s ‘erasure of the highest order’...
CNN.com· 6 days agoAn author whose novel about book banning was removed from a Florida school district’s library...
Obituary: Edna O'Brien, the controversial Irish novelist
BBC News· 18 hours agoEdna O'Brien will always be known as the controversial Irish novelist who scandalised Catholic...
Remembering the Firebrand Irish Novelist Edna O’Brien
New York Times· 17 hours agoDecades before Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, the Irish writer Edna O’Brien — who died at 93 on...
How 'cat lady' became an insult for women of a certain age
CTV News· 1 day agoThe stereotypical “cat lady” is one of pop culture’s most bizarre characters — and easiest punching...
Vancouver Island book stores give their hot beach reads, old and new
Lake Cowichan Gazette· 2 days agoBelow, two local bookshops have offered their best picks so Vancouver Island readers can stock up...