Hospital Special: Fighting Covid-19 Rating: On the afternoon of March 28, a Saturday, my father was taken by ambulance to the Royal Free Hospital in North London suffering from severe breathlessness and chest pains. No one was allowed to go with him. He was discharged at 3am on the Sunday morning, and then died later … Read more
Our wine expert has been on a mission while in lockdown to find wine and pizza pairings so good to make your smile wide enough for an extra slice By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 17:12 BST, 15 May 2020 One of the most … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Adele Parks take to a desert island? Adele Parks is currently reading The Governess by Wendy Holden British author would take Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy to a desert island She said Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree sparked her interest in reading By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 14 May 2020 … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK FLASH CRASH by Liam Vaughan (William Collins £20, 272 pp) Nearly a decade ago, a joke appeared on the internet chat forums used by traders in the financial markets. ‘One day, years from now,’ it ran, ‘a trading desk will typically consist of three things. A man, a dog and a … Read more
HISTORY LOVE IN THE BLITZ by Eileen Alexander (William Collins £20, 496 pp) At a Berkshire crossroads on June 29, 1939, a young Cambridge postgraduate, Gershon Ellenbogen, crashed his car into a passing vehicle, hurling his passenger, Eileen Alexander, who had just gained a first from Girton, out onto the tarmac. She broke her nose … Read more
SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 SORRY FOR YOUR TROUBLE by Richard Ford (Bloomsbury £16.99, 272 pp) SORRY FOR YOUR TROUBLE by Richard Ford (Bloomsbury £16.99, 272 pp) The moneyed, melancholy, middle-aged men in Richard Ford’s latest collection of … Read more
Unsure what to sip during your lockdown quiz? Our wine expert gives his tips from Pilsner beers to simple cocktails and fizz, whites and rosés By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 11:39 BST, 11 May 2020 | Updated: 11:39 BST, 11 May 2020 My wife is wearing an orange wig, beaming … Read more
From Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place to No Really, I’m Fine, History Of Ideas with David Runciman and Easy Peasy Quarantini, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 12:29 BST, 10 May 2020 Happy Place Every week Fearne Cotton asks famous guests to tell her what happiness means … Read more
The See-Through House: My Father In Full Colour Shelley Klein Chatto & Windus £16.99 Rating: Lifestyle sections of glossy magazines often show photographs of modern ‘architect-designed’ houses. They are all glass and straight lines and open-plan. There is no clutter. Nothing is out of place. If the architect has children, they are rarely visible. Perhaps … Read more
The Most Dangerous Man In America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis is a suitably head-spinning account of LSD High Priest Dr Timothy Leary By Francis Wheen Published: 22:14 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 01:11 BST, 10 May 2020 The Most Dangerous Man In America Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis … Read more