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In the titular tale, retired serial killer Kim Byeongsu is forgetting everything – words, days, events, the last person he murdered.
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RETRO READS | Daily Mail Online
RETRO READS By Val Hennessy for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2020 | Updated: 23:43 GMT, 23 January 2020 NOT AT HOME by Doris Langley Moore (Dean Street Press £10.99, 298 pp) NOT AT HOME by Doris Langley Moore (Dean Street Press £10.99, 298 pp) It’s 1945, London, and beguiling Tonia, whose … Read more
Save the living, yes, but care for the dying, too
MEMOIR DEAR LIFE by Rachel Clarke (Little Brown £16.99, 336 pp) Growing up in the 1970s, Rachel Clarke loved hearing her father’s tales of his career in medicine. But one story, — from his days as a naval anaesthetist — lingered uncomfortably in her mind. He was only a young man himself when an explosion … Read more
PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 1950S IN VOGUE: THE JESSICA DAVES YEARS by Rebecca C. Tuite (Thames & Hudson £65, 256 pp) 1950S IN VOGUE: THE JESSICA DAVES YEARS by Rebecca C. Tuite (Thames & Hudson £65, 256 … Read more
Roger Moore really wanted was to star with Morecambe and Wise…
BOOK OF THE WEEK RAISING AN EYEBROW: MY LIFE WITH SIR ROGER MOORE by Gareth Owen (History Press £20, 224 pp) Sir Roger Moore, the sleekest and most humorous of 007s, was similarly pampered and jokey off-screen, his dulcet tones never wavering. Grinning broadly, he thoroughly enjoyed the film-star trappings and never forgot ‘the wonderful … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Val McDermid take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would Val McDermid take to a desert island? Val McDermid is currently reading Emma Smith’s This Is Shakespeare She would take The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson to a desert island Crime writer revealed The Wind In The Willows gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 … Read more
The veils went on – and the gloves came off
HISTORY BLACK WAVE by Kim Ghattas (Wildfire £20, 400 pp) For most people, the story of the Middle East in recent years has felt like a bloody, brutal sequence of murder and carnage. But the rubble-strewn bloodletting of today was not always the norm. Now Kim Ghattas, who was born and bred in Beirut and … Read more
MUST READS | Daily Mail Online
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:35 GMT, 31 January 2020 THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (Penguin £7.99, 528 pp) THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (Penguin £7.99, 528 pp) On September 19, 1940, German soldiers burst into a Warsaw apartment where a man was … Read more
YOUNG FICTION | Daily Mail Online
YOUNG FICTION By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:41 GMT, 31 January 2020 EVERNIGHT by Ross Mackenzie (Andersen Press £7.99, 352 pp) EVERNIGHT by Ross Mackenzie (Andersen Press £7.99, 352 pp) There was a man made of midnight and his name was Shadow Jack . . … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME | Daily Mail Online
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:44 GMT, 31 January 2020 THE BODY ON THE TRAIN by Frances Brody (Piatkus £8.99, 384 pp) THE BODY ON THE TRAIN by Frances Brody (Piatkus £8.99, 384 pp) It’s 1929. A freight train arriving at Kings’ Cross … Read more