We Brits finally learned how to…Carry On Abroad!
Long before Brexit – in 1947, for example – a comment frequently made by an older person was, ‘I don’t want to go abroad, never have’. These quotations are found in Lucy Lethbridge’s Tourists.
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CHILDREN’S | Daily Mail Online
CHILDREN’S By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 BST, 16 June 2022 | Updated: 22:11 BST, 16 June 2022 THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE by Jacqueline Wilson (Hodder £12.99, 304pp) THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE by Jacqueline Wilson (Hodder £12.99, 304pp) Enid Blyton’s original Faraway Tree books entranced generations of readers and now bestselling author … Read more
WHAT BOOK would broadcaster, gardener and novelist Alan Titchmarsh take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would broadcaster, gardener and novelist Alan Titchmarsh take to a desert island? Alan Titchmarsh is currently reading Robert Byron’s The Road To Oxiana The broadcaster would take a book by P. G. Wodehouse to a desert island Beatrix Potter’s The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, first gave Alan the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
LITERARY FICITION
Admired and despised in equal measure, Yanagihara’s previous novel, A Little Life, was a punishing chronicle
SCI-FI & FANTASY | Daily Mail Online
SCI-FI & FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 GMT, 6 January 2022 | Updated: 22:05 GMT, 6 January 2022 A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske (Tor £16.99, 384 pp) A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske (Tor £16.99, 384 pp) In this beautifully rendered Edwardian world, magic is the preserve of a … Read more
Poetic ways to fill the days… BEL MOONEY reveals the best books to gift those who love rhymes
Poetic ways to fill the days… BEL MOONEY reveals the best books to gift those who love rhymes this Christmas Bel Mooney has picked out a selection of the best books for poetry lovers Ana Sampson inspires celebration of the Natural History Museum in Wonder Kim Moore delights women with feisty collection All The Men … Read more
Our juiciest memoirs of the year
Ysenda Maxtone-Graham rounded up a selection of this year’s best memoirs. Among the UK-based literary critic’s picks is If In Doubt Wash Your Hair by Anya Hindmarch.
Be royally entertained at Henley! UK’s leading book festival returns with starry line-up
Be royally entertained at Henley! UK’s leading book festival returns with starry line-up – including Sarah Ferguson, Gyles Brandreth and Sopranos star Stevie Van Zandt Henley Literary Festival returns next month both in person and online Sarah Ferguson and Alexandra Shulman are the latest additions to the line-up The Duchess of York will discuss her Mills … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Katie Piper take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would author Katie Piper take to a desert island? By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 17:35 EDT, 16 September 2021 | Updated: 11:03 EDT, 24 September 2021 British author Katie Piper is currently reading the ‘brilliant Lucky by Ed Jackson, which is part autobiography and part self-improvement.’ … are you reading now? The brilliant … Read more
Where have all the rabbits gone? Ruth Pavey mourns the loss of the wildlife in her Somerset Wood
Where have all the rabbits gone? Ruth Pavey mourns the loss of wildlife from our childhood as rural environment is continuously put under threat Ruth Pavey’s book is an engaging follow-up memoir to A Wood Of One’s Own Book notes changes she has observed since buying her wood at auction in 1999 She mourns the … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Santa Montefiore take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would author Santa Montefiore take to a desert island? By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:45 BST, 15 July 2021 | Updated: 22:45 BST, 15 July 2021 Author Santa Montefiore (pictured) would take Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth to a desert island …are you reading now? Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book Of Longings. This … Read more
Author reveals common questions asked in job interviews
HOW DO YOU FIGHT A HORSE-SIZED DUCK? by William Poundstone (Oneworld £16.99, 320pp) Jack is looking at Ann. Ann is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? If, like me and virtually everyone else who hears this question, you replied ‘It depends on … Read more
Remembering the wood old days! Author says we need ‘small-scale circular economies’
NATURE THE WOOD AGE by Roland Ennos (William Collins £20, 336 pp) If your surname is Cooper, Carpenter, Wheelwright, Wainwright, Shipwright, Bowyer, Fletcher, Turner, Bowler, Sawyer or Forester, then one of your ancestors worked with hand tools and wood. One thing this wonderful book reminds you of is the resourcefulness of our forebears, who grew … Read more