BooksObituaryJack Higgins obituaryBestselling author who achieved huge success with his 1975 wartime thriller The Eagle Has LandedUnder his own and several other names, including Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson had published 35 thrillers before, in his mid-40s, he hit the jackpot with The Eagle Has Landed (1975), an instant bestseller in the US, which is said to have sold more than 50m copies worldwide. Its success carried Higgins, who has died aged 92, into tax exile in Jersey, to a mansion overlooking St Aubin’s Bay, from where he was to write a popular thriller almost annually, his books guaranteed to find a place in every airport departure lounge in the world.

BOMBSHELL Antigoni Buxton makes her debut on ITV's Love Island tonight, but the beauty already has a link to another show. The singer, 26, has a reality star ex boyfriend who you'll recognise from a Channel 4 series. Antigoni is set to shake up things in the villa, with her entrance teased at the end of Tuesday night's episode. Like Gemma Owen, she has a well-known parent - her mum is celebrity chef Tonia Buxton.

Whilst traveling in the Abahru Canyon, you find a Torn Note that has been trampled into the dirt with writing about the rejection of Lilith on it. It seems that someone has left behind a note instructing whoever reads it to reject Lilith, who is called the mother by her followers. Being as it may that you are against Lilith, you set out to follow these instructions to find out what will happen once you reject the mother.

Victor Vescovo is a man of many talents and achievements. He is a private equity investor, a retired naval officer, a sub-orbital spaceflight participant, and an undersea explorer. He has scaled the highest mountains, skied to the poles, and dived to the deepest points of the five oceans. He has also made history by becoming the first person to visit both the summit of Everest and the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the highest and lowest points on Earth.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was married to Habiba Abdul-Jabbar from 1971 to 1978. The couple met at a LA Lakers game when Kareem was still playing for UCLA as Lew Alcindor and she was known as Janice Brown. When Kareem converted to Islam in 1971, her wife did the same despite being born in a Catholic household. They had three children together, daughters Habiba and Sultana, and son Kareem Jr. The couple divorced in 1978, with Kareem fathering two more sons after his first marriage.