How do you follow your heart during wartime? This remarkable treasure trove of letters gives a unique insight into home-front life and romance Eileen and Gershon on their wedding day, 1944 Eileen Alexander was a brilliant scholar, graduating from Cambridge in 1939. Her academic career derailed by the war, she lived in London with her … Read more
Heartwarming footage has captured residents at a coronavirus-hit care home where 14 people have died amid the coronavirus crisis being sung classic wartime songs to raise their spirits. Vera Lynn tribute act Deborah Taylor-Smith, known as the Geordie Sweetheart ‘Wor Vera’, sang a selection of morale-lifting songs such as ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and ‘White Cliffs … Read more
Heartwarming footage has captured residents at a coronavirus-hit care home where 14 people have died amid the coronavirus crisis being sung classic wartime songs to raise their spirits. Vera Lynn tribute act Deborah Taylor-Smith, known as the Geordie Sweetheart ‘Wor Vera’, sang a selection of morale-lifting songs such as ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and ‘White Cliffs … Read more
The Secret Guests B W Black Viking £8.99 Rating: Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Sue Townsend’s comic novel The Queen And I is set in a republican Britain, reducing Queen Elizabeth to living in a two-bedroom semi-detached, under the supervision … Read more
Donald Trump says he’s a ‘wartime president’ as he uses special defense powers to ramp up medical equipment production to tackle ‘unseen enemy’ President Trump told reporters Wednesday that he considered himself a ‘wartime president’ taking on the ‘unseen enemy’ of the coronavirus Trump was asked if he considered the country to be on ‘wartime … Read more
Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner £14.99 Rating: Way back in 1983, Graham Swift wrote the novel – Waterland – that made him famous, or at least almost famous, as he is the Invisible Man of English Letters, rarely signing books at literary festivals or holding forth on Newsnight. Waterland was about the way human … Read more