WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:31 BST, 13 March 2020 KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo translated by Jamie Chang (Scribner £12.99, 176 pp) KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo translated by Jamie Chang (Scribner £12.99, 176 pp) Written in just … Read more
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:37 BST, 13 March 2020 THIS LOVELY CITY by Louise Hare (HQ £12.99, 400 pp) THIS LOVELY CITY by Louise Hare (HQ £12.99, 400 pp) It’s fifties South London, among the Windrush generation. Twentysomething Lawrie is getting to grips … Read more
Lean, lightweight and laidback. Meet the pieces that will see you through the new season. Roar into spring with a bolt of hot red. Jacket, £775, and trousers, £410, Racil, mytheresa.com. Sunglasses, £270, Valentino, sunglasshut.com. Earrings, around £100, theninon.com It’s all about the long-line blazer this season. For extra style points bag a leather-look one … Read more
Italy sees fewer than 3,000 new coronavirus infections for the first time in a month as the country begins loosening its lockdown restrictions The death toll in Italy rose for the second day by 602, up from 566 the day before Rome has ordered opening of some shops, like bookshops and stationery stores The country’s … Read more
CONTEMPORARY By Sara Lawrence for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 02:49 BST, 20 March 2020 THE F***-IT LIST by John Niven (Heinemann £16.99, 256 pp) THE F***-IT LIST by John Niven (Heinemann £16.99, 256 pp) Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, this compulsive revenge novel is set in America … Read more
Fashion: Shop the look By Shelly Vella For You Magazine Published: 00:01 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 00:01 BST, 5 April 2020 Fashion director Shelly Vella’s pick of the season’s most exuberant prints Fashion director Shelly Vella’s pick of the season’s most exuberant prints (For dress, sunglasses and jewellery details, see page 17) Trousers, … Read more
FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 03:02 BST, 20 March 2020 THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A. K. Larkwood (Tor £16.99, 464 pp) THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A. K. Larkwood (Tor £16.99, 464 pp) What’s not to like about a betusked teenage priestess-turned-assassin, especially when she’s … Read more
Spikes in fevers across the US predicted deaths from the novel coronavirus in most states just days beforehand. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. Of the 47 states that have experienced deaths from COVID-19, the disease … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:12 BST, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 26 March 2020 KILLING WITH CONFETTI by Peter Lovesey (Sphere £8.99, 336 pp ) KILLING WITH CONFETTI by Peter Lovesey (Sphere £8.99, 336 pp ) It is a tough life for Peter Diamond. As head of … Read more
HEALTH: Cycling: healthy or high-risk? By Dr Clare Bailey for You Magazine Published: 00:02 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 5 April 2020 Over a ten-year study, cyclists suffered more injuries but fewer heart attacks I have a long-running dispute with my husband, Michael Mosley, about his cycling, which seems to me to … Read more