When happiness was a broken ginger nut: What it was like to be a child during World War II where ‘sirens and bombing’ were part of everyday life Often it’s simple pleasures rather than the destruction the children remember World War II finished 75 years ago and it was commemorated by recent VE day Kathy in … Read more
DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 11 June 2020 HEATSTROKE by Hazel Barkworth (Headline £16.99, 320pp) HEATSTROKE by Hazel Barkworth (Headline £16.99, 320pp) When 15-year-old Lily disappears during a stifling summer heatwave, Rachel, her teacher and the mother of her best friend Mia, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would presenter and writer Konnie Huq take to a desert island? Konnie Huq is reading The Future We Choose: Surviving The Climate Crisis Presenter said she would take A Song Of Ice And Fire series on a desert island Writer said she saw Upstart Crow play [about Shakespeare] just before lockdown By Daily Mail … Read more
WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 4 June 2020 A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AND A DAY by Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Gallic £10.99, 176 pp) A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AND A DAY by Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Gallic £10.99, 176 pp) Spare, elegant and poetic, this … Read more
PYSCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:14 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 4 June 2020 I MADE A MISTAKE by Jane Corry (Penguin £7.99, 432 pp) I MADE A MISTAKE by Jane Corry (Penguin £7.99, 432 pp) Poppy Page is the slightly irritating boss of a small showbusiness … Read more
The car that drives like Mad Max: How the settings for the aggression level of Tesla’s computerised driver hardly inspire confidence In Providence, Rhode Island, trial was held to see if driverless buses might work Vehicles were programmed with a set route but the programming was in winter First self-driving vehicles were ships using a … Read more
The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By A.N. Wilson (Atlantic £17.99, 368 pp) Like all the best mystery stories, this true one starts with a death. On Wednesday June 8, 1870, the small, punctiliously neat, whiskery 58-year-old Charles Dickens, having told friends he was on his way to London on business, took a train to Peckham, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Jane Harper take to a desert island? Jane Harper said The Witches by Roald Dahl first gave her the reading bug She is currently reading Grown Ups by Marian Keyes and loves all of her novels Author said she would take Killing Floor by Lee Child on a desert island with … Read more
Joe Wicks’ star continues to rise in 2020, now inking a deal to write children’s books with publishing giant HarperCollins. The Sun reports that the deal is worth £1 million and will lock Body Coach star Joe, 33, in for multiple books. The deal comes off the back of his mega-successful PE With Joe lessons, … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 28 May 2020 THE LIZARD by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (Muswell Press £12.99, 306 pp) THE LIZARD by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (Muswell Press £12.99, 306 pp) This impressive debut focuses on St Andrews University undergraduate Alistair Haston, who is brokenhearted … Read more