Author Patricia Nicol reveals a selection of the best books on: Birdsong Patricia Nicol’s family participated in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, explores historic racism in American South Where The Crawdads Sing, follows a child more attuned to birds than people By Patricia Nicol For The Daily Mail … Read more
Author Patricia Nicol reveals a selection of the best books on: Birdsong Patricia Nicol’s family participated in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, explores historic racism in American South Where The Crawdads Sing, follows a child more attuned to birds than people By Patricia Nicol For The Daily Mail … Read more
WHAT BOOK would children’s author Francesca Simon take to a desert island? Francesca Simon is reading Last Train From Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey She would take The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope to a desert island American author said Mary Poppins by P L Travers gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 28 January … Read more
Author who researched the Queen for new murder mystery novel depicting the monarch as a detective insists Her Majesty doesn’t expect palace staff to ‘drop everything’ for her and is ‘not nearly as formal as people imagine’ Sophia Bennett spent years researching royal family for novel, The Windsor Knot Author claimed Her Majesty doesn’t expect … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Richard Flanagan take to a desert island? Author Richard Flanagan is currently reading James Rebanks’ English Pastoral He would take Anna Karenina to a desert island as he re-reads it every few years Richard’s own father was a reciter of poetry and it gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK DEVILS, LUSTS AND STRANGE DESIRES by Richard Bradford (Bloomsbury £20, 272pp) By the end of the introduction — let alone the end of the book — I loathed Patricia Highsmith. In this centenary year of her birth, her satisfyingly ruthless biographer Richard Bradford sets out the essence of her character and … Read more
Author who refused to assign a gender to her baby and did ‘regular pronoun checks’ until her child DECIDED to be a ‘he’ at the age of four reveals she’s been accused of ‘abuse’ by critics Dr Kyl Myers and her husband Brent who live in Australia, are creative parenting They’ve been sent messages saying … Read more
Kindness, tenderness, love, honesty and vulnerability run like golden threads through Charlie Mackesy’s exquisite pen and ink drawings. One shows a boy, a horse, a fox and an adorable tiny mole all huddled together in a dark and forbidding forest. In others, they cower beneath a looming thundercloud, struggle to find their way through thick … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Meg Rosoff take to a desert island? Meg Rosoff has recently read Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror And The Light She would take James Thurber’s essay, The Dog That Bit People to a desert island American author said Lord Of The Flies by William Golding left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 January … Read more
A young adult author has been ‘canceled’ after she defended the writers of The Scarlett Letter and other classic novels on Twitter. The incident occurred when antiracist and anti-bias educator Lorena Germán wrote a tweet on November 30 advocating for more diversity among books that are taught in schools. In response, Jessica Cluess, who wrote … Read more