DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 11 June 2020 HEATSTROKE by Hazel Barkworth (Headline £16.99, 320pp) HEATSTROKE by Hazel Barkworth (Headline £16.99, 320pp) When 15-year-old Lily disappears during a stifling summer heatwave, Rachel, her teacher and the mother of her best friend Mia, … Read more
CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 11 June 2020 THE CURATOR by M. W. Craven (Constable £16.99, 384 pp) THE CURATOR by M. W. Craven (Constable £16.99, 384 pp) This third outing for the two magnificently eccentric analysts from the National Crime Agency, … Read more
SF AND FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 11 June 2020 THE COURT OF MIRACLES by Kester Grant (Harper Voyager £12.99, 464pp) THE COURT OF MIRACLES by Kester Grant (Harper Voyager £12.99, 464pp) It may be Paris, but gay it ain’t. The revolution … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 11 June 2020 Dick Bruna By Bruce Ingman and Ramona Reihill (Thames and Hudson, £18.95) Like so many great children’s characters, Miffy (pictured) started out as a bedtime story: Dutch artist Dick Bruna would tell his … Read more
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