These award-winners are all very different concepts, but they have one thing in common – they look mighty fine. They are the stunning hotels, restaurants and modes of tourist transport that have been named the best for design in Europe in 2019 by Ahead, the Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design, which handed out gongs in … Read more
Having a good memory for faces could land you a flight upgrade. That’s because travel expert and frequent flier Gilbert Ott, who runs the flight tips site God Save The Points, is giving away his first and business class seats to anyone who recognises him at an airport. If you spot him all you need … Read more
SCIENCE HOLLYWOOD WANTS TO KILL YOU By Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks (Atlantic £12.99, 288 pp) One person who should read this book is Donald Trump.‘He is obsessed with sharks,’ close friend Stormy Daniels revealed last year. ‘Terrified of sharks. He was like: “I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Booker-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann take to a desert island? Lucy Ellmann recently read Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg She would take a volume of Jane Austen’s complete works to a desert island Author says most non-fiction books have left her cold, except Virginia Woolf’s By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 … Read more
HISTORY BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER by Jung Chang (Jonathan Cape £25, 400 pp) One February day in 1943, a petite Chinese woman arrived by train in Washington DC and was welcomed at the railway station by Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the U.S. president. China was a U.S. ally in World War II, and … Read more
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTIN by Benjamin Markovits (Faber £16.99, 432 pp) CHRISTMAS IN AUSTIN by Benjamin Markovits (Faber £16.99, 432 pp) If you haven’t read the first in this rangy, yet addictively immersive, American family saga, all you need know is that Paul Essinger, retired from his undistinguished tennis career, is having a slow-motion breakdown. Now, … Read more
CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 I WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW by Heine Bakkeid (Raven Books £12.99, 416 pp) I WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW by Heine Bakkeid (Raven Books £12.99, 416 pp) A literary sensation in Scandinavia — and set … Read more
SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 SUDDEN TRAVELLER by Sarah Hall (Faber £12.99, 144 pp) SUDDEN TRAVELLER by Sarah Hall (Faber £12.99, 144 pp) Sarah Hall’s seven short stories are death-haunted; grief and loss are indelibly etched on to … Read more
RETRO READS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 HOLIDAY by Stanley Middleton (Windmill £8.99, 256 pp) HOLIDAY by Stanley Middleton (Windmill £8.99, 256 pp) How to fill the time? In this vividly moving novel, Edwin, 32, strolls through a seedy seaside … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 21 November 2019 TWINNING IT! by Sam and Teagan Rybka (Murdoch Books £14.99, 200 pp) TWINNING IT! by Sam and Teagan Rybka (Murdoch Books £14.99, 200 pp) The identical and supremely bendy Rybka twins, a dance … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 21 November 2019 THE IRISHMAN THE IRISHMAN by Charles Brandt (Hodder £9.99, 336 pp) by Charles Brandt (Hodder £9.99, 336 pp) Martin Scorsese’s film The Irishman debuts on Netflix this Monday. It tells the story of … Read more
The dazzling destinations you MUST visit in 2020 revealed by National Geographic, with ‘legend-filled’ Wales and ‘classic’ Philadelphia on the shortlist Also making the shortlist are the Canary Islands, Spain’s autonomous Asturias region and the Maldives Other ‘must-see’ destinations include Tohuku in Japan and the twisting Grossglockner Alpine Road in Austria They form the Best Trips … Read more
General Election poll frenzy will deliver Royal Mail a £30million bonus By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 01:39 BST, 17 November 2019 | Updated: 15:16 BST, 21 November 2019 Royal Mail could receive a £30million windfall from the General Election as the increasingly bitter battle between the political parties continues to escalate. City … Read more