Writers are allowed/encouraged to embellish, to take dramatic or comedic license because true life is often listless and boring. The task of ...

Memoirists must always impose a narrative onto the chaos of real life - but the Raynor Winn controversy is a different matter ...

Penguin on Wednesday defended its fact checking before publishing "The Salt Path,” a bestselling true story that was turned ...

As Raynor Winn’s beloved tale of resilience faces claims of fabrication, Rowan Pelling reflects on the seductive power of ...

The publishers behind The Salt Path have insisted they carried out “due diligence” in fact-checking the memoir after allegations emerged that parts of it had been embellished. Penguin has released a ...

Publishing house Penguin has said it "undertook all the necessary due diligence" before releasing The Salt Path, after a ...

In a full statement provided to The Bookseller, The Salt Path publishers Penguin state: “Penguin (Michael Joseph [a division ...

The best-selling memoir is under scrutiny after a national newspaper raised questions about the authenticity of its content ...

An investigation by The Observer into the story of the couple who walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path after their home is ...

In her bestselling memoir, Raynor Winn claims she and her husband endured homelessness, terminal illness and economic ...

Raynor Winn, author of bestselling memoir The Salt Path – also a film starring Gillian Anderson – has been accused of ...

Author Raynor Winn has been accused of omitting key elements of her story in her account of losing her home before embarking ...