It’s been a challenging year for many, but screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce explains that we have a “duty to be hopeful”. For the Big Issue’s My Big Year series, we spoke to ...

4 Extra Debut. From David Bowie to The Beach Boys. Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2010. Show more Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce is castaway by Kirsty ...

Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce reflects on how his life has changed since replacing his smartphone with a Nokia two years ago A couple of years ago, on my way to a meeting in ...

A series of ten stories written by well-known children’s authors, including Frank Cottrell Boyce and Geraldine McCaughrean. Each story is inspired by or based on a play by William Shakespeare.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the Waterstones Children’s Laureate, 2024-2026 writes on his love of reading for the Scottish Book Trust Christmas Appeal in partnership with The Herald When I was a ...

To inspire storytelling all year round, we caught up with three of our judges, Sir Lenny Henry, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Charlie Higson, who breakdown the marking criteria for 500 Words' stories.

An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, have identified a new class of cosmic X-ray sources. The findings have been ...

The writer behind the new ITV drama explains how Doreen and Neville Lawrence's patience take us back to Robert Peel's radical mission ...

There's a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in a sparkly new image. A prime example is the Christmas wreath-shaped NGC ...

These outbursts' light output didn't resemble any previous cosmic explosion. Meet the "millinovas," a term that will now undoubtedly make its way into the lexicon of space enthusiasts! In a new ...

Cepheid variables are an important rung on the cosmic distance ladder, a system astronomers use that builds one observation on another to draw logical conclusions about things much farther away ...

NASA had just launched the Swift satellite about a month before. Swift was designed to detect high-energy cosmic explosions from billions of light-years away, yet it was unprepared for SGR 1806-20 ...