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WHAT BOOK would Booker-winning author Julian Barnes take to a desert island? Julian Barnes is currently reading Simenon’s Betty – one of his ‘hard novels’ UK-based author would take The Oxford English Dictionary to a desert island The first book he remembers being given was a hardback Alice In Wonderland By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:04 … Read more
POETRY By Bel Mooney for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 BST, 12 May 2022 | Updated: 22:06 BST, 12 May 2022 Ten Poems Of The Soil (£5.95) The soil is warming, the trees are greening, the time of growth is here again — and poetry can speak to us from the ground up, whether we … Read more
CHILDREN’S By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 5 May 2022 | Updated: 22:47 BST, 5 May 2022 SEED by Caryl Lewis (Macmillan £7.99, 275pp) SEED by Caryl Lewis (Macmillan £7.99, 275pp) Award-winning Welsh writer Caryl Lewis’s first English language novel is a near-perfect blend of witty humour, rollicking adventure, compelling characters … Read more
FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 28 April 2022 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 28 April 2022 EVERSION by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz £16.99, 320pp) EVERSION by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz £16.99, 320pp) So much is crammed into this genre-busting sci-fi nail-biter, it’s hard to know where to start. A sailing ship looks … Read more
A TASTE OF HONEYSUCKLE: Enjoy the scent of Shakespeare’s woodbine and its 180 varieties Nigel Colborn describes the different types of honeysuckle for the garden UK-based garden expert says our only native honeysuckle is a climber He advises that climbing honeysuckles thrive in any soil if it drains freely By Nigel Colborn for the Daily … Read more
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 17:08 EDT, 31 March 2022 | Updated: 17:09 EDT, 31 March 2022 AT THE TABLE by Claire Powell (Fleet £14.99, 336pp) AT THE TABLE by Claire Powell (Fleet £14.99, 336pp) The Maguires of South London all have problems. Parents Linda and Gerry have just separated after … Read more
SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 GMT, 24 March 2022 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 24 March 2022 HOMESICKNESS by Colin Barrett (Cape £14.99, 224 pp) HOMESICKNESS by Colin Barrett (Cape £14.99, 224 pp) Pubs, wind farms and a rural field with an empty oil tank are the everyday settings for … Read more
WHAT BOOK would broadcaster, gardener and novelist Alan Titchmarsh take to a desert island? Alan Titchmarsh is currently reading Robert Byron’s The Road To Oxiana The broadcaster would take a book by P. G. Wodehouse to a desert island Beatrix Potter’s The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, first gave Alan the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Tessa Hadley take to a desert island? Tessa Hadley is reading Louise Gluck’s Winter Recipes From The Collective Would take War And Peace to a desert island because it would last a long time Novelist admits reading Virginia Woolf has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 20 January … Read more
SCI-FI & FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 GMT, 6 January 2022 | Updated: 22:05 GMT, 6 January 2022 A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske (Tor £16.99, 384 pp) A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske (Tor £16.99, 384 pp) In this beautifully rendered Edwardian world, magic is the preserve of a … Read more