March 11, 2021 Dear Senators Rubio, Hawley, Braun, and Lee, Thank you for your letter dated February 24, 2021. As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable. Amazon works hard to ensure customers have a great shopping experience, and access to … Read more
MEMOIR The Wild Track by Margaret Reynolds with Lucy Reynolds (Doubleday £16.00, 320pp) Mothers frazzled, exasperated and (let’s be honest) often bored at the demands of looking after small children might have surveyed Professor Margaret Reynolds’s life with envy. She was — and still is — a leading academic, a writer and editor, a broadcaster, … Read more
FOOD SLOW RISE: A BREAD-MAKING ADVENTURE by Robert Penn (Particular £17.99, 240 pp) Is there any smell more delicious than that of freshly baked bread? No wonder supermarkets pump the aroma through their stores to entice shoppers to spend more. As a nation we love our bread, gobbling nearly 12 million loaves a day. Humans … Read more
Royals, racing and finding Ronnie Biggs: Colin Mackenzie’s new memoir tells how he landed one of the greatest Fleet Street exclusives of all time Colin Mackenzie found Ronnie Biggs, the escaped Great Train Robber, in 1974 Mackenzie, then a reporter on the Daily Express, found him and got his story Pressing My Luck by Colin … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author David Baddiel take to a desert island? Comedian and author David Baddiel is now reading The Last Trial by Scott Turow He says that he would take Updike’s series of four Rabbit books to a desert island While reading Billy Bunter books by Frank Richards gave him the reading bug By Daily … Read more
The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell (Bantam £14.99, 336 pp) On the morning of her 28th birthday, writer Nell Frizzell woke up in a single bed in her mother’s spare room and remembered that the man with whom she’d shared the previous six years was no longer her boyfriend. ‘As I lay there, pinned by … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author Francis Spufford take to a desert island? Author Francis Spufford is reading Hermione Lee’s biography of Tom Stoppard He says that he would take The Book of Psalms from the Bible to a desert island Reading Tolkien’s The Hobbit when he was six gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail … Read more
WHAT BOOK would writer Marian Keyes take to a desert island? Marian Keyes is currently reading The Survivors by Jane Harper She would take The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson to a desert island Writer said The Twins at St Clare’s by Enid Blyton first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 GMT, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would children’s author Francesca Simon take to a desert island? Francesca Simon is reading Last Train From Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey She would take The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope to a desert island American author said Mary Poppins by P L Travers gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 28 January … Read more
Children’s books by black British authors will be given to every primary school in England to increase diversity in literature Collection of stories by black authors, Happy Here, will be published in August It will be given to every English primary school to increase ‘diversity of voices’ It features writers Yomi Sode, Clare Weze, Dean … Read more