MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:35 GMT, 31 January 2020 THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (Penguin £7.99, 528 pp) THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (Penguin £7.99, 528 pp) On September 19, 1940, German soldiers burst into a Warsaw apartment where a man was … 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
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 22:56 GMT, 13 February 2020 THE GENDERED BRAIN by Gina Rippon (Vintage £9.99, 448 pp) THE GENDERED BRAIN by Gina Rippon (Vintage £9.99, 448 pp) There is a colourful scientific term for a mistaken idea that keeps reappearing, … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 00:16 GMT, 21 February 2020 THE ADVENTURES OF MAUD WEST by Susannah Stapleton (Picador £9.99, 320pp) There is no shortage of female detectives in fiction, from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple to Dorothy L. Sayers’ Harriet Vane. But had … Read more
QUICK READS By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 00:18 GMT, 21 February 2020 We’re all rushed for time these days, but even so, the fact that one in three people in the UK doesn’t regularly read for pleasure is a shock. And research shows that one … Read more
Ian McEwan’s latest novel is set in 1982, but not that of historical record. Here, after a disastrous British defeat in the Falklands, Labour leader Tony Benn is demanding the resignation Mrs Thatcher.
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
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:47 GMT, 13 March 2020 STILL WATER by John Lewis-Stempel (Black Swan £9.99, 304 pp) STILL WATER by John Lewis-Stempel (Black Swan £9.99, 304 pp) ‘Their humility [is] their own enemy,’ writes John Lewis-Stempel of that modest water … Read more