These are strange times and many people who are otherwise perfectly healthy have started to feel the tell-tale symptoms stirring inside them. They experience the sudden need to get words down on paper. Medical researchers have identified this condition as novo malo, or bad novel. Doctors estimate that bad novels can lie dormant in human … Read more
Daniel Craig and wife Rachel Weisz join The Beckhams in nationwide applause as they lead stars ‘clapping for their carers’ during the COVID-19 lockdown By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 21:23 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 21:23 GMT, 26 March 2020 Advertisement Daniel Craig and his wife Rachel Weisz and The Beckham family joined … Read more
Think you know all about the Beatles? Wait till you read this mesmerising biography of Britain’s greatest band – by Britain’s greatest critic… ‘OK, there’s no more booze,’ said John Lennon. ‘Let’s talk about sex Jane,’ before asking her a creepily intrusive question. The Beatles had first met Jane Asher, the 16-year-old actress and TV … Read more
‘Inheritance is distasteful’: 007 star Daniel Craig insists he won’t leave his £125 million fortune to his children and plans to ‘get rid of it or give it away’ By Sarah Packer For Mailonline Published: 17:32 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 04:53 GMT, 21 March 2020 Daniel Craig has insisted he won’t be giving … Read more
Hard to believe, but next month sees the 50th anniversary of the day The Beatles broke up. The four of them had been together for under eight years, Ringo having joined John, Paul and George in the summer of 1962. Yet as President Obama noted when presenting Sir Paul McCartney with an award at the … Read more
Craig Revel Horwood didn’t want to be a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, the show that has made him a star. He didn’t even want to go to the audition. ‘I said to my manager, “I’m not interested. What is it? Celebrities dancing with professionals? It’s going to be pathetic. Awful. Car-crash television. I really … Read more
Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars: The Golden Age 1900-1941 James Hamilton-Paterson Head of Zeus £30 Rating: Ah, the Golden Age of Travel! This is not a book to be read while you are standing cooped-up on a crowded staircase for ten minutes as part of Ryanair’s ‘Priority Boarding’. In James Hamilton-Paterson’s judgment, the Golden Age … Read more
‘God must have smiled at me,’ says Craig Charles. ‘They got me to hospital in time.’ The BBC Radio 6 funk and soul DJ and star of sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf is talking about the heart attack he suffered in his home two years ago, which he is speaking of publicly for the first time. … Read more
Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives From Washington To Trump Andrew Gimson Square Peg £10.99 Rating: Moving into the White House, which had just been built in the middle of a rutted field, America’s second president, John Adams, prayed: ‘May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.’ Alas, his wish was not granted. … Read more
The Gatekeeper Kate Fall HQ £16.99 Rating: Discretion may be the better part of valour, but it is the worst part of a memoir. Kate Fall was David Cameron’s deputy chief of staff for 11 years, first in opposition and then in Government. Her desk was positioned outside Cameron’s door so she became known as … Read more