The car that drives like Mad Max: How the settings for the aggression level of Tesla’s computerised driver hardly inspire confidence In Providence, Rhode Island, trial was held to see if driverless buses might work Vehicles were programmed with a set route but the programming was in winter First self-driving vehicles were ships using a … Read more
PYSCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:14 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 4 June 2020 I MADE A MISTAKE by Jane Corry (Penguin £7.99, 432 pp) I MADE A MISTAKE by Jane Corry (Penguin £7.99, 432 pp) Poppy Page is the slightly irritating boss of a small showbusiness … Read more
WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 4 June 2020 A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AND A DAY by Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Gallic £10.99, 176 pp) A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AND A DAY by Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Gallic £10.99, 176 pp) Spare, elegant and poetic, this … 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
HISTORY Coffeeland : A History By Augustine Sedgewick (Allen Lane £25, 448 pp) Have you ever scanned the blizzard of drinks on offer at your nearest Costa and thought, ‘I just want a cup of coffee’? If so, then maybe this book — more than 350 pages of dense political history of the erogenous little … Read more
MEMOIR The See -Through House By Shelley Klein (Chatto £16.99, 288pp) From the outside it might not look like much: one of those weird, modern, flat-roofed, single-storey, ‘architect-designed’ houses with plate-glass windows. But for Shelley Klein and her father Bernat Klein, High Sunderland in the Scottish Borders meant everything. In this remarkable, moving tribute to … Read more