MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:07 BST, 20 May 2021 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 20 May 2021 THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) Coopers Chase is a genteel retirement home with an excellent restaurant … Read more
BIOGRAPHY DISNEY’S BRITISH GENTLEMAN: THE LIFE AND CAREER OF DAVID TOMLINSON by Nathan Morley (History Press £20, 255 pp) Where this country excels is in its reliable character actors — Ian Carmichael, John Le Mesurier, Richard Wattis, Robert Morley and, among others, David Tomlinson, whom Noel Coward unforgettably described as looking like ‘a very old … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:07 BST, 20 May 2021 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 20 May 2021 BRITAIN AT WAR IN COLOUR by Ian Carter (Imperial War Museum £25) BRITAIN AT WAR IN COLOUR by Ian Carter (Imperial War Museum £25) During World War II, colour photography, due to its … Read more
Juicy tales of the world’s smelliest fruit! Poet whose husband begged her to throw away a durian, examines the most challenging produce to grow and cook U.S. poet Kate Lebo is the author of two cookery books about fruit pies Reveals the most difficult to grow and challenging fruits to cook in a new book … Read more
…are you reading now? The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. It’s his second psychological thriller, the follow-up to his massive international bestseller, The Silent Patient. I’m halfway through and gripped. So far there’s a murder, a grieving therapist and a Cambridge University college that has many secrets hidden behind its beautiful, historical facade. If you haven’t … Read more
NATURE THE NIGHTINGALE by Sam Lee (Century £14.99, 240pp) At 10.45pm on May, 19, 1924, BBC radio announcer Rex Palmer interrupted the Saturday evening broadcast by dance band The Savoy Orpheans to whisk listeners into a Surrey woodland, where cellist Beatrice Harrison had been joined by a nightingale. In those days, just two years after … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK TAKING ON GRAVITY by Richard Browning (Bantam £20, 256pp) Richard Browning found himself standing in a Wiltshire farmyard in 2016 with jet engines the size of hairdryers attached to his arms and legs by flexible poles taken from a pop-up tent. The engines were controlled with a trigger taken from an … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 20 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 20 May 2021 THE IPCRESS FILE by Len Deighton (Penguin £9.99, 256 pp) THE IPCRESS FILE by Len Deighton (Penguin £9.99, 256 pp) Len Deighton’s spy thrillers from the 1960s have entered the ranks of Penguin … Read more
HISTORY THE RED PRINCE by Helen Carr (Oneworld £20, 304 pp) During the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, a mob attacked a palace in London which was where the Savoy Hotel now stands. The attackers burned much of what they found. Delighted by the wine cellars, many of them proceeded to get outrageously drunk. At one … Read more
