From the Sahara to Somerset, the birds that bring spring

NATURE GREENERY: JOURNEYS IN SPRINGTIME     by Tim Dee (Jonathan Cape £18.99, 355pp) One of the most joyous sights of spring is the return of the swallows, swooping and diving in the air, their forked tails slicing through the sky. Few of us give much thought to the journey that brings them back to Britain each year. … Read more

Blood, guts and junk food! Fascinating new book delves into the lives of fishermen on trawler boats 

Blood, guts and junk food! Fascinating new book delves into the lives of fishermen on trawler boats Lamorna Ash recounts the months she spent living with Cornish fishermen  A playwright in London, she lodged with a couple in the village of Newlyn Almost everyone she met in the fishing village has lost someone to the … Read more

How to survive doomsday (Clue: it helps to be a billionaire)

BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more

WHAT BOOK would novelist Anne Tyler take to a desert island? 

WHAT BOOK would novelist Anne Tyler take to a desert island? Anne Tyler has recently finished reading Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows She would take Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples to a desert island American novelist said Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: … Read more