The prices of six Dr. Seuss children’s books are now skyrocketing online after it was announced that no further copies will be published because they contain racist and insensitive imagery. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that preserves and protects the author’s legacy, announced early Tuesday that the six books would no longer be published. The … Read more
Six Dr. Seuss books, including ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street’ and ‘If I Ran the Zoo’, will no longer be published because of racist and insensitive imagery. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that preserves and protects the author’s legacy, made the announcement on Tuesday, which coincides with the late author and … Read more
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are pictured above in 1937, after his abdication When they were first published in 1967, the diaries of MP Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon enthralled and appalled the nation in equal measure. Malicious and delicious, the diaries skewered some of the grandest names in society and politics. What no one … Read more
History The Crichel Boys by Simon Fenwick (Constable £25, 368 pp) Holed up in a freezing Army camp in the far north of Scotland in 1941, the shivering and lonely young music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor dreamed up the idea of living down South with like-minded friends after the war. He envisaged a pretty house with … Read more
Royals, racing and finding Ronnie Biggs: Colin Mackenzie’s new memoir tells how he landed one of the greatest Fleet Street exclusives of all time Colin Mackenzie found Ronnie Biggs, the escaped Great Train Robber, in 1974 Mackenzie, then a reporter on the Daily Express, found him and got his story Pressing My Luck by Colin … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHAT AM I BID? MY LIFE UNDER THE HAMMER by Philip Serrell (Hodder £20, 240 pp) My hope is that Philip Serrell will do for the antiques trade what James Herriot did for cows’ bottoms, as his memoir contains every ingredient for similar popular success. Instead of the Yorkshire Dales, we … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author David Baddiel take to a desert island? Comedian and author David Baddiel is now reading The Last Trial by Scott Turow He says that he would take Updike’s series of four Rabbit books to a desert island While reading Billy Bunter books by Frank Richards gave him the reading bug By Daily … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK AFTER by Dr Bruce Greyson (Bantam £16.99, 272 pp) One Monday morning, at the age of 56, lorry driver Al Sullivan turned up for work and had a massive heart attack. The next thing he remembers is looking down at his own body on an operating table. He was interested, in a … Read more
WHAT BOOK would writer Matt Haig take to a desert island? Novelist Matt Haig is currently reading Anne Lamot’s writing guide Bird by Bird He says that he would take Walden by Henry David Thoreau to a desert island Reading The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton at the age of 12 gave him the reading … Read more
GARDENING Dear Friend And Gardener by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto (Aurum £9.99, 304 pp) Even if you’ve never heard of Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd, they have probably influenced the way you garden. If your pots and borders look lush and tropical in late summer, you’re copying the style that Christo — as everyone … Read more