WHAT BOOK would crime writer Karin Slaughter take to a desert island? Karin Slaughter is currently reading Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass House She would take The Complete Harry Potter Series to a desert island Crime writer said Orlando by Virginia Woolf left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 BST, 18 June 2020 | … Read more
Friday, June 5 Ten weeks ago, on March 31, Good Morning Britain’s editor rang me with the awful news that our colleague Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper had been rushed to hospital with Covid-19 and was fighting for his life. It was at the very peak of the pandemic, when hospitals were being swamped and … Read more
‘It’s a thrill to hear live music again’ – Laura Marling’s intimate lockdown gig at the Union Chapel gives a glimmer of hope to the whole arts world By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 Laura Marling … Read more
Staged Wednesday, BBC1 Rating: Sitting In Limbo Monday, BBC1 Rating: Two excellent shows this week: one that is pure joy, and one that will drive you to such anger you may well wish to push every slavery statue there ever was into Bristol dock. (Or any dock.) Between the two of them it means, alas, … Read more
From Joyce Carol Oates’ saga to The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe, Louise Candlish’s latest and a debut by L. Annette Binder, this week’s new fiction By John Williams and Hephzibah Anderson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Max Davidson Published: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 The Other … Read more
Billion Dollar Burger Chase Purdy Piatkus £14.99 Rating: What … Read more
Notes From An Apocalypse Mark O’Connell Granta £14.99 Rating: From the beginning of time, people have been predicting the end of time. Many of today’s shrillest apocalyptic predictions echo the Revelation of St John the Divine, which was written in about 90 AD. When I was growing up, in the 1960s, people imagined that imminent … Read more
Sipping wine on holiday may not be possible this year but we can have a liquid holiday instead by drinking bottles from our favourite destinations By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 16:38 BST, 12 June 2020 Sharing wine with friends is among my favourite … Read more
When happiness was a broken ginger nut: What it was like to be a child during World War II where ‘sirens and bombing’ were part of everyday life Often it’s simple pleasures rather than the destruction the children remember World War II finished 75 years ago and it was commemorated by recent VE day Kathy in … Read more
WHAT BOOK would presenter and writer Konnie Huq take to a desert island? Konnie Huq is reading The Future We Choose: Surviving The Climate Crisis Presenter said she would take A Song Of Ice And Fire series on a desert island Writer said she saw Upstart Crow play [about Shakespeare] just before lockdown By Daily Mail … Read more