POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING by Luke Kennard (4th Estate £14.99, 416 pp) THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING by Luke Kennard (4th Estate £14.99, 416 pp) This satirical romance about nervy millennials is unbelievably sharp and … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker £16.99, 256 pp) CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker £16.99, 256 pp) Two members of the same family, separated by 70 years, try to take … Read more
Feeling down? Then get up and walk: Authors share their personal accounts of curing depression by putting one foot in front of the other Robert Martineau shares his experience of walking to cure depression in a book The 27-year-old traveled to Ghana after getting tired of his London law firm Jake Tyler has penned a … Read more
HISTORY NAPOLEON: A LIFE IN GARDENS AND SHADOWS by Ruth Scurr (Chatto £30, 400 pp) In 1814, a few days after Napoleon abdicated as Emperor of France, the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon stopped his coach to offer a lift to a battle-weary French grenadier. ‘If Bonaparte had reigned longer,’ the young soldier told him, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist David Baldacci take to a desert island? David Baldacci is currently reading Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Novelist would take Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe to a desert island He said every book that he has ever read about Antarctica has left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:04 BST, 6 May 2021 | … Read more
World of Books put up for sale by sustainability-focused private investor Bridges Fund Management By Ben Harrington For The Mail On Sunday Published: 14:47 BST, 2 May 2021 | Updated: 14:47 BST, 2 May 2021 Britain’s largest secondhand book retailer has been put up for sale. City sources said Bridges Fund Management has appointed bankers … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Wilbur Smith take to a desert island? Wilbur Smith is currently reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Novelist would take The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck to a desert island He said that anything by H Rider Haggard first gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK BARBAROSSA by Jonathan Dimbleby (Viking £25, 640pp) Moscow on a midsummer’s night in 1941 was a balmy place to be. For the discerning, there was Chekhov’s Three Sisters playing to full houses, while opera lovers had a choice between Rigoletto and La Traviata. Others fished for their suppers on the banks … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 29 April 2021 | Updated: 22:59 BST, 29 April 2021 NORTHERN SPY by Flynn Berry (W&N £16.99, 304 pp) NORTHERN SPY by Flynn Berry (W&N £16.99, 304 pp) Two sisters working in Belfast — one a producer for the BBC who has an infant son, … Read more
CONTEMPORARY By Sara Lawrence for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 29 April 2021 | Updated: 22:59 BST, 29 April 2021 WORST. IDEA. EVER by Jane Fallon (Michael Joseph £12.99, 400 pp) WORST. IDEA. EVER by Jane Fallon (Michael Joseph £12.99, 400 pp) I’ve been a huge fan of Fallon’s beautifully written novels since her … Read more