The Premier League asked the United States government to keep Saudi Arabia on its piracy watch list before beginning checks on Newcastle United's Saudi-led takeover.

Newcastle's first team stars have launched a bid to save boss Steve Bruce with the club's prospective new owners keen to appoint Mauricio Pochettino as manager, according to The Sun.

A source said more deals with entertainment businesses in America are to be expected as the country tries to navigate the coronavirus pandemic and the fallout from plunging oil prices.

Shaynna Blaze announced her split from husband of 18 years, Steve Vaughan, in August 2018.

There was a man made of midnight and his name was Shadow Jack . . . so begins this thrilling, dark fantasy

I am a long-time fan of Keyes's hilarious, alternately heart-warming and heartbreaking, novels.

After her wartime novel The Postmistress, Sarah Blake returns with a multi-generational saga about the toxic legacy of guilt among a New York banking dynasty.

At the start of this slim, intensely absorbing novel about life after shattering loss, a woman loses her bearings in France. She has no interest in the country.

Kate Lister, author of A History of Sex, makes plain people have always wanted to turn sex 'into a moral issue', with complex social structures and taboos.

Chris Atkins was sentenced to a five-year 'stretch' in jail. He wrote about his seven months in HMP Wandsworth in A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner.

Nicholas Milton, author of Neville Chamberlain's Legacy, reveals the many sides to the famous British war-time leader. From his boyhood in Birmingham he was a lover of nature.

This writer may have a difficult name to remember but once you have read one of her excellent books, you won't forget it

Susanna Johnston has collated a charming and witty selection of vignettes and diaries from her well-connected life. From bring her dementia-ridden father home from Cape Town, to losing at ping-pong.

In Qualityland, needy delivery drones sulk if we don't give them five stars

Gene Stone and PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk explore nature in fascinating new book AnimalKind. British authors reveal that an ant colony displays more calm than a bunch of politicians.

Feeling worried about climate change has now been recognised as a legitimate mental health issue.

Andrew Ziminski has devoted himself to preserving Britain's greatest structures. The stonemason of 30 years, examines wonders including Stonehenge in a new book.

Set after the death of Victorian explorer David Livingstone, Petina Gappah's novel is part of a trend for putting history's supposed bit-part players centre-stage.

This is a fascinating character study in which we catch up with our protagonist at various points in her life.

Sylvia Topp recounts the relationship George Orwell had with his first wife Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy, in a new book. British author suggests Eileen's poem inspired a novel by Orwell.

Journalist Alice Vincent has written about finding peace in her plants after a breakup. Rootbound: Rewilding A Life described how her long-term boyfriend broke up with her over breakfast.

Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau have written a collection of essays on the behaviour of birds. A Short Philosophy Of Birds looks at how they interact with each other.

Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society's progress than GDP.

Ariana Neumann (left) wrote When Time Stopped: A Memoir Of My Father's War about Hans (right), her doting Dad. It started when she found an old ID card tucked away.

Michael Coveney celebrates amateur theatricals in a fascinating new book. The theatre critic estimates that there are around 2,500 amateur dramatic societies in Britain.

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws on love, grief, loneliness, fear, separation, anger, jealousy, frustration in This Too Shall Pass and the demands that each issue comes with.

The utterly beguiling characters from Pulley's debut The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street make a much-anticipated reappearance here.

A woman comes across a ten-year-old boy alone in a forest car park on a freezing New Year's Day

Sebastian Barry is currently reading Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time by Gaia Vince. He said he was unable to read until he was eight.

Tamsin Westhorpe is the head gardener at Stockton Bury in Hertfordshire. The former journalist has penned a diary account of the four-acre garden that has been in her family for five generations.

Timmy Mallett is currently reading Peace In War by Edward Seago, The TV presenter said he would take The Secret Footballer series to a desert island.

German historian Volker Ullrich, gives a new account of Hitler's life in a gripping sequel to his mammoth biography of the Fuhrer.

Barry's Costa-winning novel Days Without End told the story of Thomas, who flees the Irish famine and ends up fighting in the American Civil War

This book will make you think twice about your next holiday in Provence.

Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, this compulsive revenge novel is set in America in 2026,

What's not to like about a betusked teenage priestess-turned-assassin, especially when she's so sweetly lovelorn and tremendously good at fighting?

Evie Wyld's powerful, intensely absorbing third novel is haunted by ghosts

Associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Adam Kucharski reveals why outbreaks and misinformation spread in his book The Rules of Contagion.

The relationship between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, for whom he wrote So Long, Marianne among others, has already been told on film.

Rachel Johnson reveals the challenges of life in the public eye and behind the scenes of the 'Westminster bubble' in her book, Rake's Progress, My Political Midlife Crisis.

Children trapped at home now have at least one reason to celebrate - the long-awaited return of The Wolf Brother series.

Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh's A Madness Of Sunshine. The American fantasy novelist revealed that she would take Sally Thorne's The Hating Game to a desert island.

Bourne won multiple plaudits for her Young Adult books but moved into grown-up territory in 2018 with How Do You Like Me Now?

Hold on - wasn't Anne Tyler going to retire? This is her third outing since 2015's A Spool Of Blue Thread, supposedly her final novel

Jonathan Bate has penned a biography about the life of poet William Wordsworth. Author says William who was born in Cumberland did his best work after meeting Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Five months after the death of her alcoholic mother, sales assistant Ava is hit by a car

Anne Tyler has recently finished reading Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows. The American novelist revealed that she would take Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples to a desert island.

Sarah Vaughan brings to this book the same tension-building expertise that made her bestseller Anatomy Of A Scandal such a success

Irish author Mark O'Connell, speaks to people from across the globe who are preparing for the end of the world in a new book, including one who claims a rogue planet will crash into earth.

Lancashire: a neglected space caught between the twin poles of tourist magnets the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales - two places, incidentally, that are also richly imagined in literature.