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From Hazel Barkworth’s bold debut to Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale, Rebecca Kauffman’s latest and an epic by Stuart Evers, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Max Davidson and Madeleine Feeny and Anthony Gardner Published: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 Heatstroke Hazel Barkworth … Read more
Tales From The Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia Darren Coffield Unbound £25 There is something timeless about bars crammed with heavy drinkers. ‘They were talking drunk, and confidential drunk, and laughing drunk, and beautifully drunk, and leering drunk, and secretive drunk, and dignified drunk, and admittedly drunk, and fighting drunk, and even rolling drunk.’ This … Read more
From Cate Blanchett on WTF With Marc Maron to Esther Perel’s Where should we begin? and The Week Junior Show, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:00 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 6 June 2020 WTF With Marc Maron I’ve recently tuned back in to WTF, the hit interview podcast … Read more
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are reported to be taking legal action against the society magazine Tatler for its cover story entitled Catherine The Great. Perhaps Martin Tett, the leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, should do the same. In the article, an unknown visitor to William and Kate’s Norfolk home describes it as ‘like … Read more
People browsing overseas homes online while ‘dual-screening’ has resulted in a 174 per cent surge in searches for homes listed in Ibiza last month compared to the previous year, Rightmove data shows. With Netflix TV series White Lines – set on the party island – being one of the most watched programmes last month, many … Read more
Purple craze: There’s nothing lovelier than lavender with its heady scent and vivid colour, says Monty Don – and there’s a type to suit every taste Monty Don said lavender colours a mood of gentle refinement and prettiness He said it is long-lasting, ideal for a pot and resistant to almost total neglect Lavender hates … Read more
Deciding to quit the city and set up home in the countryside has become a bigger priority for some people due to the lockdown. Those in cities who have spent weeks indoors without access to green open spaces may be, understandably, keen to make imminent changes to their living arrangements. But if working from home … Read more
The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By A.N. Wilson (Atlantic £17.99, 368 pp) Like all the best mystery stories, this true one starts with a death. On Wednesday June 8, 1870, the small, punctiliously neat, whiskery 58-year-old Charles Dickens, having told friends he was on his way to London on business, took a train to Peckham, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Jane Harper take to a desert island? Jane Harper said The Witches by Roald Dahl first gave her the reading bug She is currently reading Grown Ups by Marian Keyes and loves all of her novels Author said she would take Killing Floor by Lee Child on a desert island with … Read more
The car that drives like Mad Max: How the settings for the aggression level of Tesla’s computerised driver hardly inspire confidence In Providence, Rhode Island, trial was held to see if driverless buses might work Vehicles were programmed with a set route but the programming was in winter First self-driving vehicles were ships using a … Read more