HISTORY THE STONEMASON by Andrew Ziminski (John Murray £20, 336pp) West Kennet Long Barrow has been standing amid the downs of North Wiltshire since around 3650 BC — a thousand years before the first Egyptian pyramid was so much as a gleam in a Pharaoh’s eye. And you can still crawl inside it. This is … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Sadie Jones take to a desert island? Sadie Jones is currently reading My name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout She would take Middlemarch, Nicholas Nickleby or Vanity Fair to a desert island British novelist said The Bonfire Of The Vanities left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 BST, 20 … Read more
Why Boris should study an ant colony! Fascinating nature book shares unique discoveries about the animal kingdom – from ‘calm and purposeful’ insects to how a desert mouse conserves water Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone explore nature in fascinating book AnimalKind British authors examine ant colonies and reveal that swans mate for life PETA founder … Read more
WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes She would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island British thriller writer revealed Patricia Highsmith has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 13 February 2020 … Read more
DYSTOPIAN By Jamie Buxton For Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 22:52 BST, 13 February 2020 QUALITYLAND by Marc-Uwe Kling Translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Orion £14.99, 352 pp) QUALITYLAND by Marc-Uwe Kling Translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Orion £14.99, 352 pp) In Qualityland, needy delivery drones sulk if we don’t … Read more
MEMOIR RESCUING MY FATHER by Susanna Johnston (Zuleika £10, 128pp) Doting elder sister of the late Spectator editor Alexander Chancellor, slightly less adoring daughter of the late-lamented (and late-demented, poor man) former Reuters chairman Sir Christopher Chancellor, the writer Susanna Johnston has collated this charming, witty selection of vignettes and diaries from her well-connected life. … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S LEGACY by Nicholas Milton (Pen & Sword £25, 279pp) The wheel had turned, and, in a matter of a few weeks, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had gone from the hero promising ‘peace in our time’ to the villain whose attempted appeasement of the rapacious Adolf Hitler had failed. He … Read more
MEMOIR THE SECRET MIDWIFE by Anonymous (John Blake £16.99, 320 pp) On her first day as a student on a labour ward, the Secret Midwife was directed to a quiet room. Inside, a woman was sitting on a bed, cradling a small, silent bundle. ‘Ah, thank goodness!’ the woman said. ‘I’ve been pressing the buzzer … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Joanna Scanlan take to a desert island Actress Joanna Scanlan would take Lissa Evans’ Old Baggage to a desert island She is reading Catch And Kill: Lies, Spies And A Conspiracy to Protect Predators Joanna also revealed The Young Elizabeth by Jean Plaidy gave her reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 6 … Read more
SOCIETY A BIT OF A STRETCH: THE DIARIES OF A PRISONER by Chris Atkins (Atlantic Books £16.99, 336pp) Documentary maker Chris Atkins is in a rundown cell with a psychotic prisoner discussing the intricacies of quantum mechanics. He has more prison access than any journalist could dream of, but there’s just one catch: he is … Read more