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
HISTORY THE RED PRINCE by Helen Carr (Oneworld £20, 304 pp) During the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, a mob attacked a palace in London which was where the Savoy Hotel now stands. The attackers burned much of what they found. Delighted by the wine cellars, many of them proceeded to get outrageously drunk. At one … 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
HISTORY NAPOLEON: A LIFE IN GARDENS AND SHADOWS by Ruth Scurr (Chatto £30, 400 pp) In 1814, a few days after Napoleon abdicated as Emperor of France, the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon stopped his coach to offer a lift to a battle-weary French grenadier. ‘If Bonaparte had reigned longer,’ the young soldier told him, … Read more
Feeling down? Then get up and walk: Authors share their personal accounts of curing depression by putting one foot in front of the other Robert Martineau shares his experience of walking to cure depression in a book The 27-year-old traveled to Ghana after getting tired of his London law firm Jake Tyler has penned a … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK BARBAROSSA by Jonathan Dimbleby (Viking £25, 640pp) Moscow on a midsummer’s night in 1941 was a balmy place to be. For the discerning, there was Chekhov’s Three Sisters playing to full houses, while opera lovers had a choice between Rigoletto and La Traviata. Others fished for their suppers on the banks … 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
NATURE BIRDSONG IN A TIME OF SILENCE by Steven Lovatt (Particular £12.99, 160 pp) Now that lockdown is over (if you have faith to believe our regained freedoms will last and we’re not merely in the midst of a temporary reprieve), those who last year were suddenly able to hear the birds as they took … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NUCLEAR FOLLY: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS by Serhii Plokhy (Allen Lane £25, 464 pp) Quite how close did America and the Soviet Union come in October 1962 to bombing the world back to the Stone Age with a nuclear war? Experts may disagree, but distinguished Harvard professor … 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