LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 11:55 BST, 10 January 2020 YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) In Los Angeles in the early 1990s, racial tensions — already … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:42 BST, 11 January 2020 THE WAY WE EAT NOW by Bee Wilson (4th Estate £9.99, 400 pp) ‘For most people across the world, life is getting better but diets are getting worse. Our food is killing us, … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:47 BST, 11 January 2020 THREE HOURS by Rosamund Lupton (Viking £14.99, 320 pp) THREE HOURS by Rosamund Lupton (Viking £14.99, 320 pp) It is early days, but this could be one of the thrillers of the new decade. … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 16 January 2020 100 WOMEN, 100 STYLES by Tamsin Blanchard (Laurence King £19.99, 232 pp) 100 WOMEN, 100 STYLES by Tamsin Blanchard (Laurence King £19.99, 232 pp) You may not agree with all the author’s choices … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 15:46 BST, 17 January 2020 NIGHTINGALE POINT by Luan Goldie (HQ £8.99, 384 pp) On a stifling summer’s day the residents of Nightingale Point, a London tower block, are going about their lives. Mary, a nurse, is feeling … Read more
Before graduating from the UEA’s prestigious creative writing programme, Deepa Anappara worked as a journalist in India
One interesting thing is that — in public at least — the Royal Family have kept quiet about the hasty departure to America of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The collective air emanating from the House of Windsor, like a smog of ever so jolly spring lilacs, seems to be one of understanding and … Read more
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:33 BST, 17 January 2020 MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) Back in 1970s Sheffield, teenage pop obsessives Dan and Alison were madly in love. But then Alison … Read more
PSYCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:50 BST, 17 January 2020 THE WOODS by Vanessa Savage (Sphere £16.99, 400 pp) THE WOODS by Vanessa Savage (Sphere £16.99, 400 pp) There is a cool directness about Savage’s writing that is making her name in a … Read more
Thinking Again Jan Morris Faber £16.99 Rating: Back in 2001, Jan Morris, then aged 74, announced that she had just written her final book. Oh yes? By my calculation, she has produced another six books since then – or seven if you include this new one. She has never been a slave to consistency. Whenever … Read more