APPLE TV+, BRITBOX, ACORN TV, SKY & AMAZON Greyhound Things went rapidly south the last time Tom Hanks was in charge of an ocean-going vessel – in Captain Phillips. Now he’s heading into choppy waters again as a newly promoted officer commanding a US Navy destroyer (call sign ‘Greyhound’) protecting a convoy of ships crossing … Read more
Holiday hacks revealed: The ‘secret’ discounts and two-for-one offers that can make UK staycations surprisingly affordable, from Clubcard narrowboat deals to free hotel stays using Avios Travel companies are offering ‘thank you’ discounts and freebies to NHS staff BA has expanded the number of hotels you can book using its Avios points Camping and glamping … Read more
From Jasper Fforde’s serious-minded comedy to Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, Clare Chambers’ latest and a smart read by Sabine Durrant, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and John Williams and Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Cummins Published: 22:01 BST, 4 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 4 July 2020 Utopia Avenue David Mitchell … Read more
The History Of Magic Chris Gosden … Read more
Knocking on Scotland’s door, Northumberland is a timeless vision of an older, emptier England. Wild, yet accessible, England’s least populated county’s rolling moors, ancient woodland and vertiginous valleys provide proof you don’t need to leave the UK for some splendid isolation. Its border battlegrounds, now a peaceful mosaic of habitats, are bristling with wildlife, while … Read more
The Haims bring the smooth harmonies of all the great sibling acts from the Andrews Sisters to the Bee Gees in Women In Music Pt III By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:00 BST, 4 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 4 July 2020 Haim … Read more
Dinner time at Fowey Hall Hotel, which sits above the pretty harbour town of Fowey on the south Cornwall coast, and I’m looking forward to a sumptuous feast in its critically acclaimed restaurant. Some seafood caught in the waters that lap against the shore below, perhaps. Maybe some samphire plucked from a nearby beach. And, … Read more
Mapped: Our selection of the UK’s best pubs with rooms Back in the 18th century, Samuel Johnson said: ‘There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.’ During the dark days of lockdown, many a regular has looked wistfully in … Read more
MEMOIR THE BEATLES AND BEYOND by Don Short (Wymer £14.99, 254pp) This rollicking memoir — a veritable treasure trove of anecdote and gossip — is not so much a trip down Memory Lane as a star-strewn cavalcade down Memory Motorway. Don Short is the uncrowned king of showbusiness reporters. Anyone who grew up reading the … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite take to a desert island? Oyinkan Braithwaite is currently reading The Chain by Adrian McKinty She would take Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte to a desert island Novelist revealed Mrs Rochester by Hilary Bailey left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, … Read more