To mark Valentine’s Day here are some love-themed stories from Essex history, some with happy endings, some with bloody ones.

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While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: Start on Page 1, then keep writing. By Elisabeth Egan In Charlotte ...

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s second novel is about three characters with things to hide in turn-of-the-20th-century New York Two new books -- “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild ...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Breathing Room” has a highly anticipated new book centered around a wedding. Gail Baines struggles to navigate her relationship with her ex-husband ...

When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle The Daily Mail Books department ...

While a good mattress and pillow will get you a long way toward sleeping as comfortably as possible, an adjustable bed base can literally take your sleep to a new level by letting you tilt ...

A small single mattress measures 75 x 190cm (approximately 2ft 6in x 6ft 3in). Also known as a narrow single mattress, this is the smallest adult bed you can buy. While it’s the same length as a ...

A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Wall Street's main indexes ...

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