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
CONTEMPORARY By Sara Lawrence for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:48 GMT, 31 January 2020 GROWN UPS by Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph £20, 656 pp) GROWN UPS by Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph £20, 656 pp) I am a long-time fan of Keyes’s hilarious, alternately heart-warming and heartbreaking, novels. She … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:53 GMT, 31 January 2020 THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake (Viking £14.99, 496 pp) THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake (Viking £14.99, 496 pp) After her wartime novel The Postmistress, Sarah Blake returns with a multi-generational saga … Read more
DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Hamish Hamilton £16.99, 416 pp) THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Hamish Hamilton £16.99, 416 pp) In antebellum Virginia, white people are known as ‘the Quality’ and the … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 THE MEMORY WOOD by Sam Lloyd (Bantam Press £12.99, 384 pp) THE MEMORY WOOD by Sam Lloyd (Bantam Press £12.99, 384 pp) This taut, spooky debut charts the fate of Elissa, a stunningly bright … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Picador £14.99, 352 pp) THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Picador £14.99, 352 pp) In starkly beautiful sentences Kiran Millwood Hargrave, up until now a bestselling children’s author, … Read more
Fashion: YOU Will Love By Stephanie Sofokleous For You Magazine Published: 00:01 GMT, 8 March 2020 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 8 March 2020 …Stephanie Sofokleous’s pastel pep-ups …Stephanie Sofokleous’s pastel pep-ups Shorts, £150, lkbennett.com Shower gel, £10, RHS x heathcote-ivory.com Bag, £353, elleme.com Sandals, £85, dunelondon.com Toilet paper, £24 for 24 rolls, whogivesacrap.org Earrings, £45, … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 THE LIVES OF THE OBJECTS Edited by Tristram Hunt (V&A Publishing £30, 256 pp) THE LIVES OF THE OBJECTS edited by Tristram Hunt (V&A Publishing £30, 256 pp) Henry Cole, the first director … Read more
Chilli Cheese Jacket Potatoes By James And Paul Anderson Published: 00:02 GMT, 8 March 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 8 March 2020 Can you beat the humble jacket potato for a quick lunch? Rolled in a little olive oil, sprinkled with sea salt then baked slowly for as long as you can get away with. … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 20:35 GMT, 9 February 2020 QUICKSAND TALES by Keggie Carew (Canongate, £9.99, 272 pp) QUICKSAND TALES by Keggie Carew (Canongate, £9.99, 272 pp) As we look back on our lives, most of us can recall moments of embarrassment … Read more