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Aldi is the ultimate troll!' Supermarket leaves shoppers in hysterics with their VERY cheeky take on Dr Pepper (and it's not the first time they've done it!) A Memoir of My Former Self – a guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century – has been trumpeted by its publishers as “the final book from Hilary Mantel”. Well, we’ll see about that. In one piece here, she makes a passing reference to diaries that she once kept. The Diaries of Hilary Mantel! But this will do for now. Tyler Christopher dead at 50: Ex-husband of Eva Longoria and actor passes away following 'a cardiac event in his San Diego apartment' In some of my fiction there’s a father that walks off, but for me that wasn’t really the case. In real life it was more complicated. Henry became more and more marginalised. He faded from our lives and then was gone.’ Change the viewpoint, and the story is new’: Wolf Hall is told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance in the TV adaptation). Photograph: Ed Miller/BBCAmanda Abbington slam trolls after Strictly exit and hints at being 'pushed over the edge' as she says 'you never know what someone's going through'

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I began writing fiction in the 1970s, at the point, paradoxically, where I discovered I wanted to be a historian. I thought that because of my foolishness at the age of 16, not knowing what to put on my university applications, I had missed my chance, and so if I wanted to work with the past, I would have to become a novelist – which of course, any fool can do. I felt I was morally inferior to historians and artistically inferior to real novelists, who could do plots Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels reveals he was 'drinking case of Olde English a day' during alcoholism battle - and details suicidal thoughts Kaley Cuoco dishes out a treat as she dresses daughter Matilda in FIVE adorable outfits for her first HalloweenAnd then came Cromwell. It was no small irony that after years of not being able to publish her first historical novel, she found fame with a book set during the reign of Henry VIII. “It was as if after swimming and swimming you’ve suddenly found your feet are on ground that’s firm,” she said. “I knew from the first paragraph that this was going to be the best thing I’d ever done.”