The images are strikingly modern, yet timeless; classic yet cute; epoch-defining yet intimate. Bravo to the photographer whose portraits of the royal children will not only illustrate the history books, but rewrite them. Of course, the most astonishing thing about these portraits is that they were taken not by a professional photographer, but by the … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 DO YOU READ ME? Edited by Marianne Julia Strauss (Gestalten £35) DO YOU READ ME? Edited by Marianne Julia Strauss (Gestalten £35) When we’re allowed back into the big wide world, supporting independent … Read more
HISTORY LOVE IN THE BLITZ by Eileen Alexander (William Collins £20, 496 pp) At a Berkshire crossroads on June 29, 1939, a young Cambridge postgraduate, Gershon Ellenbogen, crashed his car into a passing vehicle, hurling his passenger, Eileen Alexander, who had just gained a first from Girton, out onto the tarmac. She broke her nose … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK FLASH CRASH by Liam Vaughan (William Collins £20, 272 pp) Nearly a decade ago, a joke appeared on the internet chat forums used by traders in the financial markets. ‘One day, years from now,’ it ran, ‘a trading desk will typically consist of three things. A man, a dog and a … Read more
Majestic giants terrified of a tiny bee! Gripping tome reveals little-known facts about elephants – including how flying insects are used to keep them away from farmer’s crops Levison Wood sparks a conversation about ensuring the survival of elephants In a tome, he reveals there’s fewer than half a million of the animals left in … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Adele Parks take to a desert island? Adele Parks is currently reading The Governess by Wendy Holden British author would take Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy to a desert island She said Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree sparked her interest in reading By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 14 May 2020 … Read more
BIOGRAPHY HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD by Robert Kolker (Quercus £20, 400 pp) Don and Mimi Galvin appeared to have the perfect all-American family: ten handsome boys followed by two pretty girls, all born in a textbook baby boomer arc between 1945 and 1965. The Catholic couple’s large, modern house, on Hidden Valley Road, was close to … Read more
SCIENCE CURED by Jeffrey Rediger (Penguin £16.99, 400 pp) When Jeffrey Rediger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, began writing this compelling book about illness and wellness, he can hardly have imagined that it would have been published in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic. Rediger offers many clinically documented examples of people stricken with … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 7 May 2020 WHEN WE FALL by Carolyn Kirby (No Exit Press £12.99, 352 pp) WHEN WE FALL by Carolyn Kirby (No Exit Press £12.99, 352 pp) Thick fog, a Tiger Moth plane and an emergency landing … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 7 May 2020 SWIMMING WILD IN THE LAKE DISTRICT by Suzanna Cruickshank (Vertebrate £17.99) SWIMMING WILD IN THE LAKE DISTRICT by Suzanna Cruickshank (Vertebrate £17.99) This beauty of a book highlights the best wild swimming locations … Read more