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WITH an excerpt in the New York Times, a place in Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club and with it now being named Amazon’s book of 2016, Colson Whitehead’s latest novel The Underground Railroad arrives with a silo of hype and a bar set particularly high. Thankfully, the New York writer more than manages to meet these high expectations with a powerful, relentless novel that is tightly wrapped around a gripping story.

Brand, who was once famously married to Katy Perry, has kept his relationship with Laura on a low profile.

The lapidary line of the tubercular John Keats is almost a cliché — “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” writes Damien Enright.

When Tom O’Keeffe got a letter in the post in April last year offering a free bowel screen, he thought “I’ll fly through this”.

An interesting card this evening at Punchestown, and Sizing Platinum can get back to winning ways by taking the opening rated chase for Henry De Bromhead.

It is not often you see grown men cry, particularly the sort of shaven-headed burly blokes with tattooed knuckles that tend to follow West Ham, but there are plenty of tears being shed as the Hammers leave Upton Park after 112 years.

A same-sex couple whose dream wedding was delayed 24 hours by red tape has tied the knot.

It was meant to be the best day of their lives — but a last-minute legal issue meant it ended in heartbreak.

Reviving a show that originally flopped on Broadway is one of the best things Michael Ball has ever done, he tells Ed Power.

FOR the first three quarters of this 325-page novel, Peruvian master, Mario Vargas Llosa seems to be spinning, in alternating chapters, two quite separate — albeit thematically similar — yarns.

Bruce Willis has become a father again.

STALWART of Cork theatre, Michael Twomey, is directing Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband to celebrate 50 years of the Everyman Theatre Company.

Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming are expecting their second child together.

The 58-year-old actor is becoming widely known for his awkward interviews after a number of uncooperative and stubborn Q&As.

Royal nannies have been important figures within the palaces over the decades, caring for and shaping the emotional well-being of future kings and queens.

JANE Maas, one of the female pioneers of the advertising industry on New York’s Madison Avenue, is happy to be compared to Peggy Olson, the character from Mad Men, the 1960s-based American TV series about advertising, sex, booze and chain-smoking.

Bruce Willis can change his baby's nappy in under seven seconds.

Bruce Willis is planning to take Apple to court.

Garret FitzGerald used Ireland’s long history of emigration to gain an advantage over Margaret Thatcher during often tense negotiations over the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, his son has revealed.

An award-winning journalist in Alaska, Eowyn enjoyed her varied job, but being a reporter was never her passion. So she left, and worked in an independent bookshop; and it was there that she gained the energy and creative spirit to experiment with fiction. She spent five years working on a novel.

A Dutch prince is in intensive care after being buried in an avalanche when he skied off piste in an Austrian ski resort.

A terminally ill teenager has spoken publically for the first time after her online “bucket list” of wishes became an internet sensation.

A 15-YEAR-OLD cancer sufferer has thanked people around the world for helping to fulfil her ‘bucket list’ of things she wants to do before she dies.

A MAN, living rough and crushed to death in a refuse collection truck, had chosen a homeless lifestyle, his family said yesterday.

A WOMAN of words could have wanted no better send-off than Nuala O’Faolain received.

A TEDDY bear formerly owned by Elvis Presley was destroyed when a guard dog supposed to protect it went on the rampage.

Musician Jools Holland married his long-term partner Christabel McEwen today in a private ceremony attended by a host of stars.

A HEALTH BOARD, which has been criticised for failing to provide non-medical circumcision, is to meet next month to discuss improving general services.

MEMBERS of the Nigerian community filed in and out of Idehen and Mabel Osaghae’s rented townhouse on a hill overlooking Waterford’s quays yesterday afternoon, trying to console them after their son’s death.

GARDAÍ were last night searching for a man who carried out a botched circumcision on a four-week-old baby who later died in hospital.