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A worker at a publisher in London has been arrested and charged, accused by the FBI of defrauding famous authors.

A worker at a publisher in London has been arrested and charged, accused by the FBI of defrauding famous authors.

Top writers such as Sally Rooney and Margaret Atwood said to be among hundreds targeted in global fraud over five years

Hawke has more than 100 acting credits — but his latest work is a literary one.

Hawke has more than 100 acting credits — but his latest work is a literary one.

There’s nothing better than finding a great book to read and thanks to Athena Books we’re celebrating the best reads of the week on The Hits!   This weeks

If you were to mistake Ethan Hawkes new novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness, he probably wouldnt be surprised. With everything that Hawke has written, readers have always seen versions of him in the protagonists. But its even easier to make that mistake in Darkness, a novel about a young actor playing Hotspur in a starry production of Shakespeares Henry IV. Hawke did play that role before, with a to-die-for cast that also included Kevin Kline, Richard Easton, and Audra McDonald. Hawke, as fans o...

did have two of his own art projects: novels The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002). But when the books came out, Hawke the writer discovered that readers kept seeing Hawke the star in them. "Reading the reviews – and most of them were very kind," he says, "it became clear to me that no one could get over that I was an actor. The notoriety that Id gained as a performer. Theyre reading it with these characters Id played in their heads." In Germany, on tour for the second book, Haw...

Published April 19, 2021, 1:57 PM The four novels today come from all points of the globe. From India to the UK, and from North America to South Korea. What unites these four novels, is the impeccable quality of the writing, no matter how different their genres are. ‘Death in the East’ by Abir Mukherge A double-locked room mystery, the events of this entertaining detective mystery take place over two specific time periods. One is in 1905, as our main protagonist, Detective Sam Wyndham, i...

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