An Inspector Calls… at Read’s in Faversham – where his room has a ‘distinct old people’s home feel to it’ and a tiny TV you need binoculars to see Read’s is a statuesque Georgian manor house just outside Faversham in Kent It won best restaurant-with-rooms in The Good Hotel Guide’s 2020 Cesar awards But the Inspector … Read more
Michelle Obama is hosting a virtual storytime for kids every Monday for the next month. Kicking off today, ‘Mondays with Michelle’ will stream on several different platforms so parents across the country can sit their kids down to read a book with the former first lady. Mrs. Obama, 56, will read four different books through … 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
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
QUICK READS By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 00:18 BST, 21 February 2020 We’re all rushed for time these days, but even so, the fact that one in three people in the UK doesn’t regularly read for pleasure is a shock. And research shows that one … Read more
RETRO READS By Val Hennessy for the Daily Mail Published: 22:18 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 2 April 2020 GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (Vintage £10.99, 1,072 pp) GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (Vintage £10.99, 1,072 pp) Locked in at home, now at least we have time to … Read more
A photograph in Annabel Venning’s account of her family in wartime shows the six Walker children in order of height
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 9 April 2020 MRS EVERYTHING by Jennifer Weiner (Piatkus £8.99, 480 pp) MRS EVERYTHING by Jennifer Weiner (Piatkus £8.99, 480 pp) In 1950 the Kaufman family — Ken, Sarah and daughters Jo and Bethie — have … Read more