We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info One UK national newspaper had already printed a lurid photo of Herbert holding a felling […]

For no-nonsense reading pleasure, it’s hard to beat the glitzy thrills of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ever-swelling series of interconnected yet wholly standalone best-selling page-turners centred on the lives and loves of imaginary US celebrities. She’s already done rock stars (in Daisy Jones & The Six) and supermodels (Malibu Rising). Now Reid plunges us into the […]

Britain’s favourite pastime? Grumbling in a queue: Book explores how the UK became orderly Drinking on the job one of the areas in which Britain has become more order  Tim Newburn and Andrew Ward examine the history of Britain’s etiquette  The book looks at dog mess, urinating in public and queueing among others  SOCIETY  Orderly Britain  […]

Franz Kafka speaks for us all but there may be no other European writer who experienced the tumultuous first half of the 20th century more profoundly than Victor Serge (1890-1947). A man of action and letters, the author of seven works of fiction plus two confiscated by the Soviet police, a history, a memoir and […]

THE STOLEN YEAR: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now, by Anya Kamenetz No societal shift has impacted my adult life as profoundly as the extended closure of schools during the pandemic. At first, I mourned my career, which I gave up to facilitate the purgatory of Zoom “school” for my first […]

For some reason, William Kent Krueger’s work has always left me cold. I shied away even as the crime-writing world showered him with awards. But after reading FOX CREEK (Atria, 388 pp., $28), the 19th outing for the part-Irish, part-Ojibwe Minnesota detective Cork O’Connor, I’m at a loss to explain my earlier reticence. A man […]

House Of The Dragon: Celebrities attend UK premiere in London We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Today, Monday August 22, 2022, […]

CONTEMPORARY THE FAMILY RETREAT  by Bev Thomas (Faber £14.99, 320 pp) Caught up in the rescuing rush, Jess misses a series of huge red flags. The author was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for years and it shows. Gripping I raced through this beautifully written, emotionally intelligent thriller about domestic violence and how even […]

PICTURE THIS COLOURS OF ART  by Chloe Ashby (Frances Lincoln £25, 256 pp) Learn more about how artists experimented with pigments to deliver masterpieces in Ashby’s stunning book ‘There are colours that make each other shine, that make a couple, complete each other like man and wife,’ said van Gogh in a letter to his […]

HISTORICAL THE NIGHT SHIP by Jess Kidd (Canongate £16.99, 384pp) Jess Kidd’s fabulous fourth book sets sail in 1629, aboard the doomed Dutch ship, the Batavia Jess Kidd’s fabulous fourth book sets sail in 1629, aboard the doomed Dutch ship, the Batavia. On board are a crew of malcontented sailors, rich and poor passengers, and nine-year-old […]