THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 23:16 GMT, 5 March 2020 THE RECOVERY OF ROSE GOLD by Stephanie Wrobel ( Michael Joseph £14.99, 352 pp ) THE RECOVERY OF ROSE GOLD by Stephanie Wrobel (Michael Joseph £14.99, 352 pp) This chilling thriller tells a haunting … Read more
THE ARTS QUESTORS, JESTERS AND RENEGADES by Michael Coveney (Bloomsbury £25, 216pp) Michael Coveney says, in a statistic that stretches credulity, that there are 2,500 amateur dramatic societies in Britain, putting on 35,000 productions a year in disused cinemas, chapels, barns and converted Nissen huts. The most spectacular venue is the Minack in Cornwall, carved … Read more
Two ears are better than one mouth! Author reveals how improving your ‘active listening’ skills can help to reconnect with those closest to us Kate Murphy shares advice for improving your listening skills in a new book American author says we’re encouraged to listen to our guts but rarely to others Research shows an epidemic … Read more
PSYCHOLOGY THIS TOO SHALL PASS by Julia Samuel (Penguin £14.99, 352 pp) Nearly 15 years of writing an advice column (on top of many more years as a journalist specialising in the sorrow, struggle and pity of human life) have taught me the truth of ancient wisdom. There is nothing new under the sun — … Read more
DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 5 March 2020 THE CODES OF LOVE by Hannah Persaud (Muswell Press £10.99, 320pp) Award-winning short-story writer Persaud has developed one of her stories into this intricate examination of an open marriage with its siren call and … Read more
HISTORY By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 23:33 GMT, 5 March 2020 THE LOST FUTURE OF PEPPERHARROW by Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury £12.99, 512 pp) The utterly beguiling characters from Pulley’s debut The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street make a much-anticipated reappearance here. Clairvoyant samurai Keita Mori and … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 23:40 GMT, 5 March 2020 HOW A WOMAN BECOMES A LAKE by Marjorie Celona (Virago £16.99, 272 pp) A woman comes across a ten-year-old boy alone in a forest car park on a freezing New Year’s Day. The … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island? Sebastian Barry would take Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert on a desert island The Costa-winning novelist said Sir Philip Sidney’s The Old Arcadia left him cold He said he has no memory of being able to read until he was around eight By Daily … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 5 March 2020 MUDLARKING by Lara Maiklem (Bloomsbury £9.99, 336 pp) MUDLARKING by Lara Maiklem (Bloomsbury £9.99, 336 pp) Mudlarking was once the desperate last resort of London’s poorest inhabitants, who salvaged scraps from the muddy … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK DIARY OF A MODERN COUNTRY GARDENER by Tamsin Westhorpe (Orphans £20, 248 pp) When it comes to gardens, no one does it better than us Brits. From Sissinghurst and Kew in the South to Harlow Carr and Chatsworth in the North, we have some of the world’s most dazzling gardens. A … Read more