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POETRY By Bel Mooney for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 1 April 2021 POETRY REBELLION (Batsford £12.99) galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world Jen Hadfield doesn’t feature in that anthology, but her THE STONE AGE (Picador, £10.99) transports us to the bleakly … Read more
SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (Vintage £16.99, 256 pp) FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (Vintage £16.99, 256 pp) The hallmarks of Haruki Murakami’s … Read more
MY PHANTOMS by Gwendoline Riley (Granta £12.99, 208 pp) MY PHANTOMS by Gwendoline Riley (Granta £12.99, 208 pp) You don’t read Gwendoline Riley to be cheered up, but even by her standards, My Phantoms is bleak. It’s a portrait of a mother/daughter relationship, although narrator Bridget, the daughter in the equation, is scarcely more forthcoming … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 MIRRORLAND by Carole Johnstone (Borough Press £12.99, 416pp) MIRRORLAND by Carole Johnstone (Borough Press £12.99, 416pp) Identical twin sisters lie at the heart of this creepy Gothic debut set in a house on the outskirts … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 THIS TOO SHALL PASS by Julia Samuel (Penguin Life £9.99, 368 pp) THIS TOO SHALL PASS by Julia Samuel (Penguin Life £9.99, 368 pp) The past year has been a period of crisis, … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 April 2021 MAGNUM DOGS (Thames & Hudson, £16.99) MAGNUM DOGS (Thames & Hudson, £16.99) From strays to pampered pooches, this collection of their canine photography teems with humour and warmth Magnum photographers have covered hard-hitting topics … Read more
Dr Cat Jarman has penned a new book about the Vikings, after being inspired when she discovered a small orange bead found in a mass grave in Derbyshire had come from India.
Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) was the pilot of the doomed flight DID THE PILOT HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE? Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned mass murder because of personal problems, locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, closing down all communications, depressurising the main cabin and then disabling the aircraft so that it continued flying on … Read more
Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) was the pilot of the doomed flight DID THE PILOT HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE? Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned mass murder because of personal problems, locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, closing down all communications, depressurising the main cabin and then disabling the aircraft so that it continued flying on … Read more
CHILDREN’S By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 25 March 2021 THE DUCK WHO DIDN’T LIKE WATER by Steve Small (S&S £12.99, 32 pp) THE DUCK WHO DIDN’T LIKE WATER by Steve Small (S&S £12.99, 32 pp) Imagine a duck who doesn’t like water. Not … Read more