DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 13 May 2021 CARELESS by Kirsty Capes (Orion £12.99, 336 pp) CARELESS by Kirsty Capes (Orion £12.99, 336 pp) Fifteen years old, in care and pregnant, Bess has three options. To have and keep the baby; to … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 13 May 2021 CIRCUS OF WONDERS by Elizabeth Macneal (Picador £14.99, 384 pp) CIRCUS OF WONDERS by Elizabeth Macneal (Picador £14.99, 384 pp) Elizabeth Macneal’s wonderful second novel glitters and gleams with the grimy glories of a … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 13 May 2021 HOLD STILL (National Portrait Gallery £24.95) HOLD STILL (National Portrait Gallery £24.95) In May 2020, the National Portrait Gallery — along with the Duchess of Cambridge — asked the public to send in … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 13 May 2021 THE GOLDEN RULE by Amanda Craig (Abacus £8.99, 400 pp) THE GOLDEN RULE by Amanda Craig (Abacus £8.99, 400 pp) Two women meet on a train to Cornwall. Both are embroiled in bitter … 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
WHAT BOOK would journalist and novelist Tom Bradby take to a desert island? Tom Bradby revealed he’s currently reading True Crime Story by Joseph Knox Novelist would take Len Deighton Game, Set & Match trilogy to a desert island He said The Poldark series first gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 13 May 2021 … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2021 THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton (Raven £8.99, 574pp) THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton (Raven £8.99, 574pp) Stuart Turton won a Costa First Novel award for … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2021 CUT & DRY by Carolyn Dunster (Laurence King £17.99) CUT & DRY by Carolyn Dunster (Laurence King £17.99) Floral designer Carolyn Dunster loved fresh flowers as a child but disliked that ‘once picked, … Read more
PSYCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2021 THE HOUSE GUEST by Charlotte Northedge (HarperCollins £14.99, 352 pp) THE HOUSE GUEST by Charlotte Northedge (HarperCollins £14.99, 352 pp) If you suspect life coaches are a bunch of sinister manipulators who sell … Read more
WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 WHEREABOUTS by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury £14.99, 176 pp) WHEREABOUTS by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury £14.99, 176 pp) The unmanned protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri’s slender Italian novel is a 40-something professor, living in an unnamed … Read more