WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island? Sebastian Barry would take Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert on a desert island The Costa-winning novelist said Sir Philip Sidney’s The Old Arcadia left him cold He said he has no memory of being able to read until he was around eight By Daily … Read more
Mysterious exoplanet 40 times bigger than Earth and 730 light-years away in the ‘hot Neptuian desert’ may be the core of a gas giant An exoplanet has been discovered 730 light-years from Earth However, it is just the core of what was once a gas giant similar to Saturn Cosmic radiation or a collision with another … Read more
WHAT BOOK would TV presenter Timmy Mallett take to a desert island? Timmy Mallett would take The Secret Footballer series to a desert island The TV presenter said Hillary Clinton’s political memoir left him cold He said Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 12 March 2020 … Read more
MEMOIR THINGS I LEARNED FROM FALLING by Claire Nelson (Octopus £12.99, 272 pp) Dehydration is a God-awful business,’ says Claire Nelson. ‘Over time, your tongue becomes increasingly dry and scratchy, thickening like a wool mitten. My lips stuck to my gums like Velcro. ‘From there, you feel it in your head; a slowly increasing pressure … Read more
…are you reading now? For a long time I was a Proustian who had never read Proust, although I first read about him when I was 16 — pronouncing him ‘Prowst’ as opposed to ‘Proost’ — in connection with Gladys Deacon, the subject of my latest biography, of whom he was an admirer. I went … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Annalena McAfee take to a desert island? Novelist Annalena McAfee would take Palgrave’s Golden Treasury on an island She is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul The novelist said that comics and joke books first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would fantasy novelist Sarah J. Maas take to a desert island? Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh’s A Madness Of Sunshine She would take Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game to a desert island American novelist said George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:05 BST, 2 … Read more
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