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
Annie Gray’s delicious Victory In The Kitchen, a biography of Georgina Landemare, Winston Churchill’s cook, is ‘popular history at its very best’ By Kathryn Hughes Published: 22:01 BST, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 16:53 BST, 26 February 2020 Victory In The Kitchen: The Life Of Churchill’s Cook Annie Gray … 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
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 9 April 2020 THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd (Tinder Press £20, 432 pp) THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd (Tinder Press £20, 432 pp) This brilliant novel, by the bestselling author of … Read more