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
HISTORY LONDON 1945 by Maureen Waller (John Murray £12.99, 560pp) Twenty-four hours of manic rejoicing flanked at both ends by years of queuing and hardship: that’s the overwhelming impression given by Maureen Waller’s superbly well-researched and detailed portrait of London in 1945, reissued in paperback to commemorate today’s anniversary of VE Day. It really happened: … Read more
Build your own island getaway! Author explores the globe’s blissful utopias in a fascinating new book Alastair Bonnett explores islands around the world in a new geography book He visits The World, a collection of 300 islands off the coast of Dubai British author is met by staff complaining about the size of India’s representation … Read more
PSYCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 7 May 2020 THREE PERFECT LIARS by Heidi Perks (Century £12.99, 448 pp) THREE PERFECT LIARS by Heidi Perks (Century £12.99, 448 pp) This book opens with a vivid description of an unnamed woman watching an … Read more
SCIENCE CURED by Jeffrey Rediger (Penguin £16.99, 400 pp) When Jeffrey Rediger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, began writing this compelling book about illness and wellness, he can hardly have imagined that it would have been published in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic. Rediger offers many clinically documented examples of people stricken with … Read more
Author who had an orchidectomy due to testicular cancer reveals the unspeakable truth of life as a eunuch in a gripping memoir Laurence Dillon has penned a memoir about the history of eunuchs Author was inspired after having an orchidectomy for testicular cancer Facing a life of being infertile, he reflects on opportunities that he didn’t … Read more
WHAT BOOK would farmer and writer Amanda Owen take to a desert island? Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter by Frances Osborne She would take Swaledale by Marie Hartley and Ella Pontefract to a desert island British writer said James Herriot first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 30 April … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK BECOMING BULLETPROOF by Evy Poumpouras (Icon £14.99, 336 pp) She’s not a woman to mess with, Evy Poumpouras. A former U.S. Secret Service Agent blessed with spectacular looks, who has worked in the security details for four former presidents, she knows of what she speaks. She was on duty at the … Read more
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