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From Joyce Carol Oates’ saga to The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe, Louise Candlish’s latest and a debut by L. Annette Binder, this week’s new fiction By John Williams and Hephzibah Anderson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Max Davidson Published: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 The Other … Read more
Billion Dollar Burger Chase Purdy Piatkus £14.99 Rating: What … Read more
Notes From An Apocalypse Mark O’Connell Granta £14.99 Rating: From the beginning of time, people have been predicting the end of time. Many of today’s shrillest apocalyptic predictions echo the Revelation of St John the Divine, which was written in about 90 AD. When I was growing up, in the 1960s, people imagined that imminent … Read more
Friday, June 5 Ten weeks ago, on March 31, Good Morning Britain’s editor rang me with the awful news that our colleague Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper had been rushed to hospital with Covid-19 and was fighting for his life. It was at the very peak of the pandemic, when hospitals were being swamped and … Read more
Confinement to barracks has at least given us pause to contemplate our surroundings. We haven’t been able to go to the shops for months, but from Monday we will finally have a chance to act on any ideas we might have had about improving the look of our homes. Here, eight of the UK’s top … Read more
Blue swoon! Delphiniums radiate a glorious shade that so rarely pops up in nature – and they’re at their best now, says MONTY DON Blue is the rarest colour in nature and if you look closely a ‘true’ blue is very rare Most so-called ‘blue’ flowers have a lot of red in, so they’re shades … Read more
Sipping wine on holiday may not be possible this year but we can have a liquid holiday instead by drinking bottles from our favourite destinations By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 11 June 2020 Sharing wine with friends is among my favourite … Read more
Is this the one area of the home you HAVEN’T cleaned during lockdown? Five steps to spruce up your radiators and help save on energy bills TV cleaner Aggie MacKenzie explains dusty radiators are less efficient Five tips to help keep them clean include making your own radiator brush Experts also suggest avoid using cleaning … Read more
Is this the one area of the home you HAVEN’T cleaned during lockdown? Five steps to spruce up your radiators and help save on energy bills TV cleaner Aggie MacKenzie explains dusty radiators are less efficient Five tips to help keep them clean include making your own radiator brush Experts also suggest avoid using cleaning … Read more
Beware a hasty house sale… Or why tempting agents’ offers to sell your home in a hurry can be a quick route to very big losses Homeowners being warned of a rise in rogue estate agents exploiting families They risk being tied into expensive long-term contracts with ‘quick sale’ firms Some cash home-buying firms offer … Read more