When one of the most powerful explosions on record tore through our eighth-floor apartment in central Beirut last month, it felt like the end of the world. In that millisecond, hundreds of thousands of people didn’t know if they would live or die. My mother and I were catapulted into the living room from our … Read more
Let’s not get too hung up about age. After all, as the perennially youthful Joan Collins is fond of reminding us, ‘it’s just a number’. Joan’s husband Percy Gibson is 55. ‘If he dies, he dies,’ the actress and writer famously quipped when pressed about the significant age difference between them. But how does her … Read more
She likes to celebrate the publication of each of her books with ‘a cold glass of champagne —with lots of bubbles’. But best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop may feel in the mood for a bottle of retsina this morning — if not a magnum. For I can disclose that she has just been awarded honorary Greek … Read more
MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp) There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Sadie Jones take to a desert island? Sadie Jones is currently reading My name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout She would take Middlemarch, Nicholas Nickleby or Vanity Fair to a desert island British novelist said The Bonfire Of The Vanities left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 BST, 20 … Read more
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
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