WHAT BOOK would Eoin Colfer take to a desert island? Irish author Eoin Colfer is currently reading The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris He would take the Mortdecai trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli to a desert island Stig Of The Dump by Clive King first got him reading while he was in bed with flu By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK Self-Portrait by Celia Paul (Cape £20, 216 pp) Just be glad you weren’t a young, innocent, impressionable female art student at the Slade in the 1970s. It was all too likely that you’d be spotted by Lucian Freud, who was a visiting tutor and used to prowl the corridors and refectory. … Read more
MEMOIR Mapperton Moments by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more
BIOGRAPHY An Englishman Abroad by Gianluca Barneschi (Osprey £16.99, 336 pp) On the night of August 14, 1943, a British secret agent fell from the sky into Lake Como in northern Italy. Dick Mallaby hit the water carrying codes hidden inside a toothpaste tube, radio equipment in his shaving brush, an antenna disguised as a … Read more
Singapore Airlines is one of the most lauded carriers in the world, with more awards than you can shake a designer amenity kit at. But The Points Guy UK travel site refused to be hypnotised by the bulging trophy cabinet and sent four of its experts onto one of the carrier’s A380s to carry out … Read more
The location where NASA plans to land its rover on Mars could hold signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists are set to investigate the Jezero crater in the Mars 2020 mission, which was home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago and is littered with carbonates and hydrated silica. Carbonates located in the crater’s inner rim … Read more
Here’s a look at the new streaming challengers and what you get with each: NEW PLAYERS Disney+ Disney’s entertainment service, featuring shows and movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. Launch date: November 12 Price: $7 a month or $70 a year. Getting Disney Plus with ESPN Plus and Hulu, both owned … Read more
Aged 14, I stayed with friends of my father’s in northern France for a few days, and that was when I discovered how fabulous French food was. This family owned an enormous sugar beet farm near Cambrai and lived in a chateau with servants. At lunch and dinner my 11-year-old sister and I dined in … Read more
Love it or loathe it, Black Friday has fast become the biggest shopping event of the year, with customers spending hundreds of millions of pounds both in store and online. Interest in Black Friday – imported from the US – has grown rapidly, with online sales up 46 per cent annually last November, suggesting millions … Read more
Defender’s big screen debut: Behind the scenes video shows Land Rover’s new 4×4 rolling onto its roof in upcoming James Bond film, No Time to Die Footage shows the new Land Rover Defender jumping, nosediving into rivers and rolling onto its roof The clip is from behind-the-scenes shooting of the new 007 film, which is … Read more
Dozens of the UK’s biggest companies have been named and shamed for having all- male boards or just a single ‘token’ female director. Two companies in the FTSE 350 – property group Daejan Holdings and software firm Kainos Group – have no women on the board. And a further 39 have only one female board … Read more
Black Friday UK 2019: Amazon is starting Black Friday a week early Black Friday 2019 will take place in the UK and the rest of the world this month Amazon and other retailers will roll out huge discounts over the next few weeks Consumers will be able to get their hands on deals across tech, … Read more
Modern technology is ‘shining a light’ on what daily life was like in ancient Egypt by using lasers, X-rays, and infrared to examine the bones of mummies. A number of bone samples dating back between 2,000 and 4,000 years have been tested using the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Labs in California. It works by … Read more