Bezonomics review: It shines in its detailed exposition of how the Amazon phenomenon was built
Bezonomics Brian Dumaine S&S £20 … Read more
Bezonomics Brian Dumaine S&S £20 … Read more
From Spitfire: The People’s Plane to James Haskell and Alex Payne’s House Of Rugby, Might Delete Later and Floodlines, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 30 May 2020 Spitfire: The People’s Plane It’s hard to think of a plane that has captured a nation’s … Read more
Britain’s Best Parent? Thursday, Channel 4 Rating: McMillion$ Wednesday, Sky Documentaries Rating: Channel 4’s latest reality competition is Britain’s Best Parent?, although you do have to wonder whether the first rule of being Britain’s best parent is: don’t appear on a show like Britain’s Best Parent? Steer clear. Avoid. And also, isn’t the test now … Read more
From Simon Stephenson’s debut to Fair Warning by Michael Connelly, an engrossing novel by Paul M. M. Cooper and Nick Bradley’s latest By John Williams and Madeleine Feeny and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson Published: 22:00 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 30 May 2020 Fair Warning Michael Connelly … Read more
Burgers are the dish of choice in lockdown… with the weather starting to sizzle, in absence of a van, why not ramp up the vin instead By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 16:00 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 16:00 BST, 29 May 2020 The dish of choice in lockdown lately … Read more
WHAT BOOK would writer Nina Stibbe take to a desert island? Nina Stibbe is currently reading Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann She would take The Complete Works Of Sue Townsend to a desert island British writer said practical survival books have left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:06 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: … Read more
NATURE DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller £16.99, 224pp) Dara McAnulty is a brilliant young teenage naturalist from Northern Ireland who writes a popular blog about his sightings and adventures, and has also appeared on BBC’s Countryfile. He’s on the autistic spectrum, and doesn’t so much coolly observe nature as passionately … Read more
LIFESTYLE RHUBARB RHUBARB by Mary Jane Paterson and Jo Thompson (Unbound £20, 160pp) Cooking and gardening often go hand in hand — just think of Mary Berry, Nigel Slater and Jamie Oliver, all dedicated gardeners as well as outstanding cooks. Rhubarb Rhubarb is written by two women who prove the exception to that rule. Mary … Read more
Author who discovered his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica after finding a box of centuries-old papers pens fascinating tome charting the history of their rum business which made the family rich Richard Atkinson uncovers the history of his ancestors in a new history book He was inspired after discovering a box revealing his family … Read more
TEENAGE By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 28 May 2020 AGAIN AGAIN by E. Lockhart (Hot Key £7.99 320 pp) AGAIN AGAIN by E. Lockhart (Hot Key £7.99 320 pp) Emily Lockhart captures the complexity of teenage life in richly layered and sometimes darkly … Read more