BOOK OF THE WEEK THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Roxane Van Iperen (Seven Dials £18.99, 320 pp) When Dutch author and journalist Roxane van Iperen and her husband first glimpsed The High Nest, they fell instantly in love with it. A romantic, shuttered house tucked away in the woods 30 miles from Amsterdam, with friendly … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 14:56 GMT, 3 January 2020 A DEATH IN REMBRANDT SQUARE by Anja de Jager (Constable £8.99) A fatal hit and run in central Amsterdam threatens to upend the police career of detective Lotte Meerman. It was she who, … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 15:01 GMT, 3 January 2020 ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON by Douglas Kennedy (Hutchinson £13.99) There is an inordinate amount of sex in the latest from the bestselling author of The Pursuit Of Happiness. Sam is a young American … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE MOTHER OF BEAUTY by Nigel Andrew (Thorntree Press £10, 244 pp) We English have a world-class literature, it is often said, with Dickens and Shakespeare, but we’re not so good on art and music. If it’s great symphonies you want, you have to turn to Germany and Austria; for painting and … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Jess Kidd take to a desert island? By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 22:42 GMT, 9 January 2020 … are you reading now? I have two books on the go. The first is a proof by the Irish writer Ruth Gilligan called The Butchers (coming out … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Joe Viner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 22:43 GMT, 9 January 2020 ILLUSTRATING ARMAGEDDON by Jim Davies (Uniform £30, 272 pp) A stunning collection of Fortunino Matania’s illustrations from the Western Front Philosopher and writer George Santayana once said: ‘Only the dead have seen the … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 22:44 GMT, 9 January 2020 MISS AUSTEN by Gill Hornby (Century £12.99, 416 pp) MISS AUSTEN by Gill Hornby (Century £12.99, 416 pp) ‘Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?’ asks the … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 11:55 GMT, 10 January 2020 YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) In Los Angeles in the early 1990s, racial tensions — already … Read more
MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp) There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 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