PSYCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 22:39 GMT, 13 February 2020 THE ALIBI GIRL by C.J. Skuse (H.Q. £7.99, 384 pp) THE ALIBI GIRL by C.J. Skuse (H.Q. £7.99, 384 pp) This writer may have a difficult name to remember but once you have … Read more
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 22:44 GMT, 13 February 2020 A GOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD by Therese Anne Fowler (Headline £18.99, 320 pp) A GOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD by Therese Anne Fowler (Headline £18.99, 320 pp) Alpha-male Brad and his glossy wife and daughters have just moved to … Read more
MEMOIR RESCUING MY FATHER by Susanna Johnston (Zuleika £10, 128pp) Doting elder sister of the late Spectator editor Alexander Chancellor, slightly less adoring daughter of the late-lamented (and late-demented, poor man) former Reuters chairman Sir Christopher Chancellor, the writer Susanna Johnston has collated this charming, witty selection of vignettes and diaries from her well-connected life. … Read more
DYSTOPIAN By Jamie Buxton For Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 22:52 GMT, 13 February 2020 QUALITYLAND by Marc-Uwe Kling Translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Orion £14.99, 352 pp) QUALITYLAND by Marc-Uwe Kling Translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Orion £14.99, 352 pp) In Qualityland, needy delivery drones sulk if we don’t … Read more
WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes She would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island British thriller writer revealed Patricia Highsmith has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 13 February 2020 … Read more
Why Boris should study an ant colony! Fascinating nature book shares unique discoveries about the animal kingdom – from ‘calm and purposeful’ insects to how a desert mouse conserves water Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone explore nature in fascinating book AnimalKind British authors examine ant colonies and reveal that swans mate for life PETA founder … Read more
Feeling worried about climate change has now been recognised as a legitimate mental health issue.
WHAT BOOK would novelist Sadie Jones take to a desert island? Sadie Jones is currently reading My name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout She would take Middlemarch, Nicholas Nickleby or Vanity Fair to a desert island British novelist said The Bonfire Of The Vanities left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 GMT, 20 … Read more
HISTORY THE STONEMASON by Andrew Ziminski (John Murray £20, 336pp) West Kennet Long Barrow has been standing amid the downs of North Wiltshire since around 3650 BC — a thousand years before the first Egyptian pyramid was so much as a gleam in a Pharaoh’s eye. And you can still crawl inside it. This is … Read more
OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT by Petina Gappah (Faber £16.99, 320pp) Set after the death of Victorian explorer David Livingstone, Petina Gappah’s novel is part of a trend for putting history’s supposed bit-part players centre-stage. Incredibly, Livingstone’s African retinue trekked across the continent so that his body could be buried in Britain. Gappah fictionalises two … Read more