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'Bishop's Pawn' is Steve Berry's most personal novel to date

Monday, 23 April 2018, 09:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"The Bishop's Pawn" (Minotaur), by Steve Berry Before Cotton Malone worked with Stephanie Nelle and the Magellan Billet, he was a Navy lawyer who seemed to get cases that kept him busy, but...

The Kappillan is out! A novel for our times

Saturday, 21 April 2018, 12:19 Last update: about 10 years ago

A packed theatre attended the official launching of the Maltese version of Nicholas Monsarrat’s 1973 novel, The Kappillan of Malta at Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta. The translation is by the...

Graceland opens vault for Elvis documentary to air on HBO

Friday, 20 April 2018, 11:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A new television documentary about Elvis Presley takes advantage of the vast collection of footage, pictures, documents and music from his estate to give a behind-the-scenes look at the king of rock...

George Ezra's songwriting journeys lead to new album

Friday, 20 April 2018, 11:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

George Ezra, "Staying at Tamara's" (Columbia Records) George Ezra can't stand still. "Staying at Tamara's," his second album, arrives four years after "Wanted for Voyage," which included...

'Pacific Rim Uprising' is cheer-at-the-screen fun

Friday, 20 April 2018, 10:46 Last update: about 10 years ago

At the end of the monsters-versus-robots flick "Pacific Rim," a breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is closed, plugging a hole that allowed hellish creatures to emerge and terrorize the globe....

Anna Quindlen exposes NY social strata in 'Alternate Side'

Friday, 20 April 2018, 08:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"Alternate Side" (Random House), by Anna Quindlen Anna Quindlen has written a book that only a New Yorker — or at least someone who has lived there for a stint — could love. The rest...

'Roseanne' spurs new look at blue-collar, conservative fare

Thursday, 19 April 2018, 11:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The instant-hit status of "Roseanne" is triggering the enduring Hollywood impulse to copycat success. Even with series pilots nearing completion for the 2018-19 TV season, producers are eagerly...

Drag queen Trixie Mattel offers folksy wisdom on new album

Thursday, 19 April 2018, 11:13 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

If you've only heard of Trixie Mattel as the blonde, bee-hive wearing winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3," then you've only scratched the surface of this comedian, television show host and...

'Love, Simon' breaks ground with a radical ordinariness

Thursday, 19 April 2018, 10:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"Love, Simon" is in many ways an ordinary high school film, one of those glossy, endlessly watchable and entertaining romps made in the vein of all those John Hughes classics of the 1980s with a...

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