…are you reading now? The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. It’s his second psychological thriller, the follow-up to his massive international bestseller, The Silent Patient. I’m halfway through and gripped. So far there’s a murder, a grieving therapist and a Cambridge University college that has many secrets hidden behind its beautiful, historical facade. If you haven’t … Read more
WHAT BOOK would journalist and novelist Tom Bradby take to a desert island? Tom Bradby revealed he’s currently reading True Crime Story by Joseph Knox Novelist would take Len Deighton Game, Set & Match trilogy to a desert island He said The Poldark series first gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 13 May 2021 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist David Baldacci take to a desert island? David Baldacci is currently reading Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Novelist would take Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe to a desert island He said every book that he has ever read about Antarctica has left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:04 BST, 6 May 2021 | … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Wilbur Smith take to a desert island? Wilbur Smith is currently reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Novelist would take The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck to a desert island He said that anything by H Rider Haggard first gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Polly Samson take to a desert island? Polly Samson is reading For Esme — With Love And Squalor by J.D. Salinger Novelist would take all seven volumes of Proust to a desert island She said Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 BST, 22 … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK DOSTOEVSKY IN LOVE: AN INTIMATE LIFE by Alex Christofi (Bloomsbury £20, 238 pp) The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth,’ said Fyodor Dostoevsky. As we discover from Alex Christofi’s luminous biography, he certainly remained true to his word. ‘I have never experienced happiness. I have always … Read more
Author who researched the Queen for new murder mystery novel depicting the monarch as a detective insists Her Majesty doesn’t expect palace staff to ‘drop everything’ for her and is ‘not nearly as formal as people imagine’ Sophia Bennett spent years researching royal family for novel, The Windsor Knot Author claimed Her Majesty doesn’t expect … Read more
WHAT BOOK would historical novelist Kate Mosse take to a desert island? Kate Mosse is currently re-reading all Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels She said she would take T S Eliot’s Four Quartets with her to a desert island The novelist said Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
To say I love the Christmas season at our home in the South of France is an understatement. I get such a kick out of preparing the house for the arrival of family; seeing our scruffy old villa bursting at the seams with loved ones. Christmas in the Caribbean, after a tiring flight, may sweep … Read more
The husband of best-selling author Fay Weldon said today the breakup of his marriage was ‘sudden, bewildering and very sad’. Nick Fox rejected claims by his 89-year-old wife that his controlling behaviour was to blame for the shock split saying: ‘I want her back. I thought we had a good marriage. ‘We have known each … Read more