LITERARY FICTION
Sophie Mackintosh’s unsettling, hypnotically eerie Booker-longlisted debut, The Water Cure, earned comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, and the influence of Atwood’s classic is evident too.
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The Cabinet of Calm: Paul Anthony Jones’s ‘linguistic remedies’
Words to wash away your worries: Paul Anthony Jones uses ‘linguistic remedies’ to offer reassurance and hope in the face of all the ghastly feelings that enshroud us day after day By Marcus Berkmann for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 20 August 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 20 August 2020 The Cabinet Of Calm … Read more
Author Noriko Morishita draws parallels between the art of Japanese tea making and life
CULTURE THE WISDOM OF TEA by Noriko Morishita (Allen & Unwin £12.99, 224 pp) You may think you’re particular about how you make your tea — warm the pot? Milk in first? Teabag in a mug? Whatever your brew, it’s nothing to the Japanese tea ceremony. As this delightfully quirky little book, which is part … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Elif Shafak take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would author Elif Shafak take to a desert island? Elif Shafak is reading Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line by Deepa Anappara She revealed that she would take Orlando by Virginia Woolf to a desert island Author said Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 … Read more
Coming to a screen near you!
Coming to a screen near you! Joanna Trollope, Kate Humble and Graham Norton are among the stars at this autumn’s online literary festival The Henley Literary Festival will be online throughout September and October This year’s line-up includes Joanna Trollope, John Grisham and Graham Norton Events for younger readers include presenters Leah Gooding and Ricky … Read more
HISTORICAL | Daily Mail Online
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 13 August 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 13 August 2020 THE GOVERNESS by Wendy Holden (Welbeck £12.99, 400 pp) THE GOVERNESS by Wendy Holden (Welbeck £12.99, 400 pp) At 22, Marion Crawford was a progressive, Left-leaning teacher whose heartfelt vocation was to educate children … Read more
Do goblins tickle feet in Siberia?
Jonathan C. Slaght has penned a book about his quest to track down and protect the biggest owls on earth. Blakiston’s fish owl are mostly found in the remote East Russian province of Primorye.
WHAT BOOK would David Nicholls take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would David Nicholls take to a desert island? Novelist David Nicholls is currently reading Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers He would take a Charles Dicken’s novel, Bleak House, to a desert island David has also enjoyed reading Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 6 August 2020 | Updated: … Read more
DEBUTS | Daily Mail Online
DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 August 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 6 August 2020 TRUE STORY by Kate Reed Petty (Riverrun £16.99, 400 pp) TRUE STORY by Kate Reed Petty (Riverrun £16.99, 400 pp) A rowdy campus party in 1999 ends with two boys driving a girl home, … Read more
Author explains how he beat anxiety and learned to laugh
MEMOIR ANXIOUS MAN by Josh Roberts (Yellow Kite £14.99, 208 pp) One morning in 2016, Josh Roberts woke up with a hangover. Or so he thought. As the day wore on, however, the 26-year-old realised this was more than just a headache after too many beers. His heart was pounding, he was sweating and his … Read more