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WHAT BOOK would comedian and author SHAPARAK KHORSANDI take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would comedian and author SHAPARAK KHORSANDI take to a desert island?Shaparak would spend entire Saturdays at the library when she was growing upREAD MORE: WHAT BOOK would writer Alexander McCall Smith take to a…
‘I had a chatty lunch with my mother in an Indian restaurant … four days later she took
BOOK OF THE WEEK Before the light fades: a memoir of grief and resistanceby Natasha Walter (Virago £18.99, 256pp)Natasha Walter had heard her mother say, ‘When the time comes, I will kill myself’ so many times that she’d stopped…
Confessions of America’s most prolific serial killer: When novelist Jillian Lauren asked
Book of the weekBehold the MonsterBy Jillian Lauren (Robinson £16.99, 512pp)Sam Little didn't look like a serial killer at first glance — let alone like America's most prolific serial killer, guilty of 93 murders over three decades.A…
As Greece is engulfed in flames, a timely book tells the story of a… Boomtown burnt to
Fire weather by John Vaillant (Sceptre £25, 432pp)With what sometimes seems like half of Europe and North America ablaze this summer, Fire Weather, the latest book by the Vancouver-based writer and journalist John Vaillant, could not be…
The broke 21-year-old who moved into a care home: Teun Toebes, a young Dutch nursing
The Housemates By Teun Toebes (September Publishing £12.99, 256pp)Here's an ineradicably strange book that adds something interesting and possibly even important to dementia literature, the huge and burgeoning new genre that is never…
WHAT BOOK would author Andrew Child take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would author Andrew Child take to a desert island?By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 16:49 EDT, 24 August 2023 <!--
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Thought we’d abolished capital punishment? Think again. A powerful new book by a former
BOOK OF THE WEEKBEHIND THESE DOORS by Alex South (Hodder & Stoughton £16.99, 352pp)Most people have pretty strong feelings about what prisons should be like. Hardly anyone knows what they are like.Half the population is convinced…
I ditched God – then my husband ditched me: SITA WALKER’s memoir describes her drift in…
MEMOIRTHE GOD OF NO GOOD by Sita Walker (Ultimo Press £16.99, 320pp)Sita Walker's heartfelt memoir opens in a café in Brisbane, Australia, over a vanilla custard slice.Walker had just taken a bite when her husband, Borhan, announced he…
WHAT BOOK would author and former police officer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert
WHAT BOOK would author and former police officer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island?By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 17:03 EDT, 17 August 2023 | Updated: 17:59 EDT, 17 August 2023 <!--
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Forget Munich, Harry. You should have come to Ashton (salary £125 a week – plus a £5 goal
NOWHERE TO RUNby Jonathan Sayer (Bantam £16.99, 256pp)If you sometimes feel a little wearied by endless newspaper reports of barely-known football players picking up gazillions as they move from club to elite club, then this…