MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 11 June 2020 Primate Change by Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid Primate Change By Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Cassell £9.99, 400pp) ‘If you think you’re you, think again,’ warns Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid in his thought-provoking history of the human … Read more
Wednesday, May 20 Captain, now Colonel Tom Moore, is to be knighted, it was announced today – a month after we launched a campaign on Good Morning Britain for him to get a gong. The great man recently rang to thank me for helping with his fundraising exploits, which felt a bit like Thierry Henry … Read more
Wanderland by Jini Reddy is a funny and touching book charting her year spent traversing the landscapes of Britain in search of magic By Kathryn Hughes Published: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 Wanderland Jini Reddy … Read more
From Hazel Barkworth’s bold debut to Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale, Rebecca Kauffman’s latest and an epic by Stuart Evers, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Max Davidson and Madeleine Feeny and Anthony Gardner Published: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 Heatstroke Hazel Barkworth … Read more
From Cate Blanchett on WTF With Marc Maron to Esther Perel’s Where should we begin? and The Week Junior Show, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:00 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 6 June 2020 WTF With Marc Maron I’ve recently tuned back in to WTF, the hit interview podcast … Read more
The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By A.N. Wilson (Atlantic £17.99, 368 pp) Like all the best mystery stories, this true one starts with a death. On Wednesday June 8, 1870, the small, punctiliously neat, whiskery 58-year-old Charles Dickens, having told friends he was on his way to London on business, took a train to Peckham, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Jane Harper take to a desert island? Jane Harper said The Witches by Roald Dahl first gave her the reading bug She is currently reading Grown Ups by Marian Keyes and loves all of her novels Author said she would take Killing Floor by Lee Child on a desert island with … Read more
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