Britain’s Best Parent? Thursday, Channel 4 Rating: McMillion$ Wednesday, Sky Documentaries Rating: Channel 4’s latest reality competition is Britain’s Best Parent?, although you do have to wonder whether the first rule of being Britain’s best parent is: don’t appear on a show like Britain’s Best Parent? Steer clear. Avoid. And also, isn’t the test now … Read more
From Simon Stephenson’s debut to Fair Warning by Michael Connelly, an engrossing novel by Paul M. M. Cooper and Nick Bradley’s latest By John Williams and Madeleine Feeny and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson Published: 22:00 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 30 May 2020 Fair Warning Michael Connelly … Read more
Burgers are the dish of choice in lockdown… with the weather starting to sizzle, in absence of a van, why not ramp up the vin instead By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 16:00 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 16:00 BST, 29 May 2020 The dish of choice in lockdown lately … Read more
The Kennedy Curse James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen Century £16.99 Rating: In America, this book was given the stately title The House Of Kennedy. Its UK publishers have gone for something more Hammer Horror, adding the words ‘Six Generations Of Adultery, Addiction And Tragedy’ on to the cover for good measure, to ensure no bookseller … Read more
Native: Life In A Vanishing Landscape Patrick Laurie Birlinn £14.99 … Read more
From Simon Armitage’s The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed to Lockdown Parenting Hell and Miriam And Youssef, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed Simon Armitage, the nation’s bard, is spending lockdown … Read more
What’s The Matter With Tony Slattery? Thursday, BBC2 Rating: The Big Flower Fight Netflix Rating: This week a new Netflix show that mercilessly plunders the Bake Off/Sewing Bee format, and a documentary on the comedian Tony Slattery, who was ubiquitous in the late 1980s and early 1990s before suddenly disappearing from view. And while I’m … Read more
From Jenny Colgan’s latest to Writers & Lovers by Lily King, a mystery by Susie Steiner and Shubhangi Swarup’s debut, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Hephzibah Anderson and John Williams and Max Davidson Published: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 Five Hundred Miles From You … Read more
MONDAY, MAY 11 ‘Shall I cut your hair?’ asked Celia, eyeing my increasingly overgrown lockdown locks. ‘Have you ever done it before?’ I replied nervously. Piers Morgan put his faith in wife Celia Walden by reluctantly agreeing to let her cut his hair as they self-quarantine at their London home ‘No, but I’ve watched a … Read more
Not only is his new movie a hit but his marriage to Soon-Yi, 35 years his junior, has endured 21 years defying all predictions. In a rare interview, the film legend says in typical deadpan style: I got lucky From the quiet study of his Manhattan home, Woody Allen is absorbing the news that his … Read more