WHAT BOOK would Booker-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann take to a desert island? Lucy Ellmann recently read Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg She would take a volume of Jane Austen’s complete works to a desert island Author says most non-fiction books have left her cold, except Virginia Woolf’s By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Douglas Kennedy take to a desert island? Douglas Kennedy is currently re-reading Adam Phillips’s Monogamy He would take F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to a desert island He said anything by J.R.R. Tolkien has always left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 09:33 GMT, 27 December 2019 | Updated: 09:33 GMT, 27 … Read more
You may not be surprised to find out that as a travel writer my tastes edge more towards luxury boutiques than camping. Believe me, I have tried all manner of camping variations worth writing a press release about, including the dreaded ‘glamping’ subgenre, a term derived from the combination (and indeed oxymoron in my eyes) … Read more
The search for life on other planets has captivated mankind for decades. But the reality could be a little less like the Hollywood blockbusters, scientists have revealed. They say if there was life on the red planet, it probably will present itself as fossilized bacteria – and have proposed a new way to look for … 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
WHAT BOOK would Wilbur Smith take to a desert island? Wilbur Smith revealed that he’s currently reading The Egyptian by Mika Waltari He would take My African Journey by Winston Churchill to a desert island He said King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:09 … Read more
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
WHAT BOOK would Joanna Scanlan take to a desert island Actress Joanna Scanlan would take Lissa Evans’ Old Baggage to a desert island She is reading Catch And Kill: Lies, Spies And A Conspiracy to Protect Predators Joanna also revealed The Young Elizabeth by Jean Plaidy gave her reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 6 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes She would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island British thriller writer revealed Patricia Highsmith has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 13 February 2020 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Sadie Jones take to a desert island? Sadie Jones is currently reading My name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout She would take Middlemarch, Nicholas Nickleby or Vanity Fair to a desert island British novelist said The Bonfire Of The Vanities left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 GMT, 20 … Read more