From The Joe Wicks Podcast to Homo Sapiens with Alan Cumming, The Pargetter Triptych and The Town That Didn’t Stare, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 The Joe Wicks Podcast The lockdown has made a king of Joe Wicks, the fitness … Read more
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian Friday, BBC2 Rating: Imagine… Lemn Sissay: The Memory Of Me Thursday, BBC1 Rating: This week we said goodbye to the Aussie thriller The Secrets She Keeps and welcomed the French thriller The Last Wave, about a huge wave that causes the disappearance of surfers who later return changed. A camper adventure: … Read more
Gemma Arterton leads a distinguished cast in Summerland, but Jessica Swale’s sun-drenched, wartime debut is hampered by its complex storyline By Matthew Bond for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 Summerland … Read more
Folklore, Taylor Swift’s surprise album is more sorrowful, intimate bedroom pop than folk, but it’s her most grown-up album to date… and her best By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 Taylor Swift … Read more
From a living room trapeze to thinking pink (a lot), the home of interiors blogger Emily Murray is full of playful ideas to steal. Here’s how… The Family Emily is the author of interiors book Pink House Living and lives in Forest Hill, Southeast London, with her husband Euan and sons Oscar, ten, and Zac, … Read more
NATURE PLANTING FOR BUTTERFLIES by Jane Moore (Hardie Grant £12, 144 pp) Butterflies have poor eyesight, they can taste only with their feet and they have a lifespan of just a few weeks. Yet, during their brief existence, they provide one of the most joyful sights of summer as they feed, flutter and flirt for … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Stanley Johnson take to a desert island? Stanley Johnson has recently finished reading Unfair Game by Lord Ashcroft He revealed that he would take Homer’s Odyssey to a desert island Author explained why James Joyce’s Ulysses left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 23 July … Read more
SCI-FI By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 23 July 2020 MALORIE by Josh Malerman n (Orion £16.99, 320 pp) MALORIE by Josh Malerman n(Orion £16.99, 320 pp) In this brilliant, insanely compelling sequel to Bird Box, the world is still infested with monsters so … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 July 2020 SLOW BURN by Stephen Leather (Hodder £16.99, 400 pp) SLOW BURN by Stephen Leather (Hodder £16.99, 400 pp) In the wake of the decision to allow 20-year-old Jihadi bride Shamima Begum back into this … Read more
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 July 2020 ALL ADULTS HERE by Emma Straub (Michael Joseph £14.99, 352 pp) ALL ADULTS HERE by Emma Straub (Michael Joseph £14.99, 352 pp) Inner lives, family dynamics and sexuality in suburban modern America. Buttoned-up granny … Read more