[ad_1] Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still in cinemas and is absolutely fantastic. Considering the roleplaying game (RPG) source material has such expansive worlds and ideas, it only seems natural for the movie to have a couple of spin-off novels. The Druid’s Call acts as a direct prequel …
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[ad_1] Monsignor O’Flaherty was warned of the dangers by the Germans and the Vatican (Image: Getty) Every evening, as the sun was setting over the skyline of Rome, Hugh O’Flaherty would stand on the steps of St Peter’s Basilica, in Vatican City, in full view of armed Nazi soldiers stationed …
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[ad_1] Ellie Robinson, photographed this week at Queen Mary University of London (Image: Steve Reigate) It was just after winning her Paralympic gold medal at Rio 2016 that swimmer Ellie Robinson developed a debilitating fear of failure. She was a torpedo talent aged 15 and just four years into taking …
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[ad_1] Singer/song-writer Paul Weller writes new book (Image: Nicole Nodland) When Paul Weller was a nine-year-old kid, he used to thrum out chords on a cheap plastic guitar while his friend bashed out a basic rhythm on pots and pans pinched from the kitchen. It wasn’t the most auspicious start …
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[ad_1] Rub of the green: Star Steve Davis in 1985 (Image: Getty) It is a game of subtlety and mystery – a slow-paced affair, in an increasingly fast-paced world. The critic Clive James dubbed it “chess with balls”. And he was quite right: snooker blends depth with the dynamism of …
Read More »It’s 50 years since Red Rum’s iconic Grand National win – but it’s as amazing as ever | History | News
[ad_1] Red Rum claims victory in the 1973 Grand National (Image: PA) It’s Saturday March 31, 1973, and we’re about to witness one of the greatest horse races of all time. Yet even though the winner would go on to become the nation’s favourite racehorse, at the time he was …
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[ad_1] White-haired stranger Snorri emerges from a frozen wilderness and offers to recount a saga to Viking warlord Sven Ravenfeeder and his men in exchange for food and water. But the brutal warrior drops a noose around Snorri’s neck and tells him: “If we like your story, you will live…” …
Read More »Why the kneeling man beside dying Martin Luther King was a police spy | History | News
[ad_1] Marrell McCollough tends the mortally-wounded Martin Luther King as onlookers point towards assassin (Image: Joseph Louw/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty/AP Photo/Charles Kelly) The gunshot ripped apart the evening calm outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, 55 years ago this Tuesday. Its echoes would reverberate across the world. Dr Martin …
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[ad_1] Step group members: Lee Latchford Evans, Claire Richards, Faye Tozer and Ian “H” Watkins (Image: Getty) They were, let there be no mistake, required to project a squeaky clean image to fans both young and old, and woe betide anyone who let the side down by being drunk and …
Read More »The Fourth Haunting review: England’s most celebrated ghost hunter investigates | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] The Fourth Haunting is a full-length paranormal thriller, F.G. Cottam’s latest foray into the world of the unknown, the uncertain and the sometimes very disconcerting. Its central character is Tom Carter, introduced at the outset as Britain’s most celebrated ghosthunter, as he pitches the idea for his latest TV …
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