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SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 24 October 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 24 October 2019 THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2019 (Comma Press £7.99, 144 pp) THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2019 (Comma Press £7.99, 144 pp) As ever, the BBC National Short Story Award had … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 24 October 2019 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 24 October 2019 MELMOTH by Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail £8.99, 288 pp) MELMOTH by Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail £8.99, 288 pp) Melmoth the Wanderer is the title of a 19th-century Gothic novel whose tragic anti-hero makes … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 24 October 2019 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 24 October 2019 JOHN NASH: ARTIST & COUNTRYMAN (by Andrew Lambirth, Unicorn, £40, 256pp) JOHN NASH: ARTIST & COUNTRYMAN (by Andrew Lambirth, Unicorn, £40, 256pp) John Nash had no formal training yet his watercolours, oils, illustrations … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 31 October 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 31 October 2019 THE ART OF LOOKING UP by Catherine McCormack (White Lion Publishing £35, 240 pp) THE ART OF LOOKING UP by Catherine McCormack (White Lion Publishing £35, 240 pp) This book features 40 of … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 31 October 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 31 October 2019 THE ASTRONAUT SELECTION TEST BOOK by Tim Peake (Century £12.99, 256 pp) THE ASTRONAUT SELECTION TEST BOOK by Tim Peake (Century £12.99, 256 pp) In 2008, Tim Peake applied to train as an … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 31 October 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 31 October 2019 A DANGEROUS ENGAGEMENT by Ashley Weaver (Allison & Busby £14.99, 350 pp) A DANGEROUS ENGAGEMENT by Ashley Weaver (Allison & Busby £14.99, 350 pp) A rich socialite with a talent for delving into … Read more
THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner (Granta £16.99, 304 pp) THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner (Granta £16.99, 304 pp) American auto-fiction star Ben Lerner’s third novel —which comes endorsed by the uber-cool likes of Sally Rooney and Maggie Nelson — is a potent, painful picking-apart of trauma; the beginnings of the age of information … Read more