Readers' stories articles
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Road safety crisis: Readers share their stories of worsening driver behaviour on Irish roads
Readers told us driver behaviour, etiquette and compliance with the law has seriously deteriorated in Ireland.
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‘My favourite stories are love stories’: Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction
With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapismA few weeks after Emily Henry’s second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 2021, she noticed a “giant” spike in sales. Her editor and agent had noticed it too. They were all emailing and texting, trying to figure out what was happening, when someone finally cracked it: “It’s BookTok”.Henry had already made it on to the New York...
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‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed
They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermathI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York.This was the last morning, innocent and ordinary, before my life was shattered by the 27...