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Katie Holmes bundles up in double-breasted beige coat to shop for new novels while solo in NYC By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 00:04 GMT, 16 November 2020 | Updated: 00:32 GMT, 16 November 2020 Dawson’s Creek alum Katie Holmes shopped for new novels while solo at a bookshop in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood on Sunday. … Read more
East 17 star Tony Mortimer reads his first novel after turning 50 — then reads 64 more with Shakespeare next on the list East 17 boyband member Tony Mortimer reads first novel, aged 50 in lockdown Now the Stay Another Day hitmaker is 10,000 words into writing his own book Discovered passion for reading after … Read more
The flat where Inspector Rebus lives in author Ian Rankin’s crime novels has gone up for sale for more than £425,000. The property in Edinburgh’s Marchmont area has been the detective’s home for all 22 of the bestselling books in which he has featured. Rankin, 60, has previously identified the flat as being Rebus’s home … Read more
It’s a lockdown love-in! Online searches for raunchy novels such as Fifty Shades of Grey surge as Britons seek a little solace in romance Online searches for love stories have bloomed by 154 per cent in parts of the UK Highest number of searches were recorded in Norfolk and the East of England However research, … Read more
Best books on dogs: Author Patricia Nicol suggests novels focused on canine companions Author Patricia Nicol has shared a selection of books on four-legged friends Lily And The Octopus by American Steven Rowley comes to terms with loss Saving Missy by Beth Morrey involves a solitary old lady who craves company By Patricia Nicol For … Read more
Reading classic novels instead of self-help books can boost brain power and improve your quality of life, new research suggests Reading complex works of classic literature boosts brain power, research says It ‘frees emotions and imagination’ and lets people feel alive, suggests professor The brain ‘gets excited, it gets emotional’, according to Professor Philip Davis … Read more
LITERARY FICTION ANTHONY CUMMINS OLIGARCHY by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate £14.99) OLIGARCHY by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate £14.99) Nothing I’d previously read by Scarlett Thomas prepared me for the wall-to-wall joy of Oligarchy — a wickedly well-turned black comedy centred on an Instagram-fuelled wave of anorexia among teenage girls at a Home Counties boarding school favoured by … Read more
Talking to Chocolat author Joanne Harris is like dipping into a box of soft centres that has lost the little guide that usually comes tucked into the lid: you don’t know what delightful surprise you are going to get next. First she tells me that, aged 54, she’s thinking of getting her first tattoo, an … Read more