Meghan Markle ‘was a smiling face in a dull institution’ and ‘too good to be true’ for the monarchy, according to novelist Dame Hilary Mantel. The British Booker Prize-winning author, 67, spoke with Harper’s Bazaar to celebrate the publication of the final installment of her bestselling Tudor trilogy, The Mirror & the Light. Photographed at Hampton Court Palace, the … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Booker-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann take to a desert island? Lucy Ellmann recently read Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg She would take a volume of Jane Austen’s complete works to a desert island Author says most non-fiction books have left her cold, except Virginia Woolf’s By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 … Read more
NATURE TURNING THE BOAT FOR HOME By Richard Mabey (Chatto £18.99, 262pp) As a young man working in publishing, Richard Mabey would use his lunch hour to go for a walk, observing kestrels wheeling overhead, sand martins burrowing in a sandbank and the profusion of plants such as Canadian fleabane and Indian balsam. Far from … Read more