A sequel to success for Kazuo Ishiguro? Author could win his second Booker Prize… 32 years after his first Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is in the running to win the Booker Prize as his latest novel, Klara And The Sun, has been longlisted for this year’s prize This is the fifth time the British writer has … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Santa Montefiore take to a desert island? By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:45 BST, 15 July 2021 | Updated: 22:45 BST, 15 July 2021 Author Santa Montefiore (pictured) would take Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth to a desert island …are you reading now? Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book Of Longings. This … Read more
HOW DO YOU FIGHT A HORSE-SIZED DUCK? by William Poundstone (Oneworld £16.99, 320pp) Jack is looking at Ann. Ann is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? If, like me and virtually everyone else who hears this question, you replied ‘It depends on … Read more
NATURE THE WOOD AGE by Roland Ennos (William Collins £20, 336 pp) If your surname is Cooper, Carpenter, Wheelwright, Wainwright, Shipwright, Bowyer, Fletcher, Turner, Bowler, Sawyer or Forester, then one of your ancestors worked with hand tools and wood. One thing this wonderful book reminds you of is the resourcefulness of our forebears, who grew … Read more
Fifty Shades author E. L. James says she originally aimed to sell 5,000 books when she wrote the erotic novel that sold more than 125 million copies – and doesn’t rule out revisiting the series E. L. James, 58, recently released latest in the latest in the Fifty Shades franchise Original erotic trilogy sold 150 million … Read more
Acclaimed British author Richard Cohen’s new book on historians is cancelled in the US amid backlash at him for ‘not including enough black academics’ Author Richard Cohen is writing new 780-page book called ‘The History Makers’ Publisher Random House concerned it did not contain enough black academics Mr Cohen, 75, wrote extra 18,000 words after … Read more
NATURE BIRDSONG IN A TIME OF SILENCE by Steven Lovatt (Particular £12.99, 160 pp) Now that lockdown is over (if you have faith to believe our regained freedoms will last and we’re not merely in the midst of a temporary reprieve), those who last year were suddenly able to hear the birds as they took … Read more
‘No-one is laughing… delete it’: England’s Jofra Archer hits out at Bangladeshi author who bizarrely tweeted that ‘Moeen Ali would have gone to Syria to join ISIS’ if he was not a cricketer Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen posted an extraordinary tweet saying England all-rounder Moeen Ali would have joined ISIS if not for cricket Moeen’s … Read more
An author has revealed the trauma of being ‘held down, stripped and forced medicated’ in a psychiatric hospital as she calls for open conversations about mental illness in a thought-provoking memoir. Carla Moore, 30, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has spoken about her experiences in a psychiatric hospital in an emotional book, Confessions from My Delusional Mind: … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Maggie O’Farrell take to a desert island? Maggie O’Farrell is currently reading Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for the ninth time Author would take William Boy’s Any Human Heart to a desert island Moominland Midwinter first gave her reading bug when she was eight or nine By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, … Read more