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MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 23:12 GMT, 2 January 2020 THE WISDOM OF WOLVES by Elli H Radinger (Michael Joseph £9.99) THE WISDOM OF WOLVES by Elli H Radinger (Michael Joseph £9.99) As a lawyer working in Frankfurt, Elli Radinger was beginning to … Read more
‘I’ll interrupt no more old chum’: Basil Brush reads eulogy from the pulpit for co-star ‘Mr Derek’ Fowlds as he is buried at his local church following his death last month aged 82 Famous fox was among the mourners at St Katharine’s Church in Holt, Wiltshire He was helped to the pulpit by Reverend Andrew … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 11 January 2020 THE WAY WE EAT NOW by Bee Wilson (4th Estate £9.99, 400 pp) ‘For most people across the world, life is getting better but diets are getting worse. Our food is killing us, … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 15:46 GMT, 17 January 2020 NIGHTINGALE POINT by Luan Goldie (HQ £8.99, 384 pp) On a stifling summer’s day the residents of Nightingale Point, a London tower block, are going about their lives. Mary, a nurse, is feeling … Read more
BIG SKY by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan £8.99, 512 pp) BIG SKY by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan £8.99, 512 pp) For many years, Jackson Brodie has dreamed of returning to his Yorkshire roots, and in the fifth of Kate Atkinson’s novels about the policeman turned private detective, his wish has been granted. He’s renting a … Read more
RETRO READS By Val Hennessy for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2020 | Updated: 23:43 GMT, 23 January 2020 NOT AT HOME by Doris Langley Moore (Dean Street Press £10.99, 298 pp) NOT AT HOME by Doris Langley Moore (Dean Street Press £10.99, 298 pp) It’s 1945, London, and beguiling Tonia, whose … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:35 GMT, 31 January 2020 THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (Penguin £7.99, 528 pp) THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (Penguin £7.99, 528 pp) On September 19, 1940, German soldiers burst into a Warsaw apartment where a man was … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 20:35 GMT, 9 February 2020 QUICKSAND TALES by Keggie Carew (Canongate, £9.99, 272 pp) QUICKSAND TALES by Keggie Carew (Canongate, £9.99, 272 pp) As we look back on our lives, most of us can recall moments of embarrassment … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 22:56 GMT, 13 February 2020 THE GENDERED BRAIN by Gina Rippon (Vintage £9.99, 448 pp) THE GENDERED BRAIN by Gina Rippon (Vintage £9.99, 448 pp) There is a colourful scientific term for a mistaken idea that keeps reappearing, … Read more
An Inspector Calls… at Read’s in Faversham – where his room has a ‘distinct old people’s home feel to it’ and a tiny TV you need binoculars to see Read’s is a statuesque Georgian manor house just outside Faversham in Kent It won best restaurant-with-rooms in The Good Hotel Guide’s 2020 Cesar awards But the Inspector … Read more