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BIOGRAPHY BORIS JOHNSON: THE GAMBLER by Tom Bower (WH Allen £20, 592pp) Tom Bower is a compulsive chronicler of chicanery, or — as his many biographical victims would see it — a prolific perpetrator of hatchet jobs. Critics and enemies of Boris Johnson (of which there has never been a shortage) will therefore be disappointed … Read more
ROYALS PRINCE PHILIP REVEALED by Ingrid Seward (S&S £20, 384pp) On the one hand, he has been steadfastly by the Queen’s side throughout her long reign. On the other, he appears not to give a damn about anyone else’s feelings and is prone to gaffes which are sometimes downright unpleasant. As a friend of Prince … Read more
ROYALS PRINCE PHILIP REVEALED by Ingrid Seward (S&S £20, 384pp) On the one hand, he has been steadfastly by the Queen’s side throughout her long reign. On the other, he appears not to give a damn about anyone else’s feelings and is prone to gaffes which are sometimes downright unpleasant. As a friend of Prince … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 1 October 2020 Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore (Penguin £18.99, 1,072 pp) Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore (Penguin £18.99, 1,072 pp) The third volume of Charles Moore’s masterly authorised biography of Britain’s longest-serving modern Prime Minister covers the … Read more
TOM STOPPARD: A LIFE by Hermione Lee (Faber £30, 860pp) Transport yourself, in these sad days of silenced theatres, to a full-house Old Vic on the evening of April 11, 1967. It’s the opening night of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed the previous summer at the Edinburgh Fringe where it had terrible reviews … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist John Lanchester take to a desert island? John Lancaster just finished reading Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror And The Light He revealed he would take the complete Shakespeare to a desert island Novelist said he has been an addicted reader since he could first read books By John Lanchester for the Daily … Read more
HISTORY Hitler’s Northern Utopia by Despina Stratigakos (Princeton £25, 328 pp) Adolf Hitler was mesmerised. In the spring of 1934, he went on holiday, a secret cruise in a German battleship through the fjords of Norway and, for hours on end, stared at the natural beauty around him. A Norwegian crew member later recalled him … Read more
HISTORY Hitler’s Northern Utopia by Despina Stratigakos (Princeton £25, 328 pp) Adolf Hitler was mesmerised. In the spring of 1934, he went on holiday, a secret cruise in a German battleship through the fjords of Norway and, for hours on end, stared at the natural beauty around him. A Norwegian crew member later recalled him … Read more
WHAT BOOK would TV presenter Dermot O’Leary take to a desert island? Dermot O’Leary is currently reading Into The Raging Sea by Rachel Slade He’d take to a desert island: The Charlie Parker books by John Connolly Toto The Ninja Cat And The Mystery Jewel Thief by Dermot O’Leary is out now By Daily Mail … Read more
The Beeb, the Beatles and blazing the trail: Annie Nightingale, 80, Radio 1’s first female DJ, details her career in a candid memoir, including the moment after John Lennon’s death where Paul McCartney called her live on air Annie Nightingale, 80, became Radio 1’s first female DJ in February 1970 When John Lennon was killed, Paul … Read more