MEMOIR ROOTBOUND: REWILDING A LIFE by Alice Vincent (Canongate, £14.99, 368pp) How do you mend a broken heart? The dumped often find solace in getting drunk, gorging on ice cream or stalking their ex on Facebook. For journalist Alice Vincent, salvation came in the form of a tiny balcony. When this memoir begins, she is … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 | Updated: 10:10 GMT, 28 February 2020 My Town by David Gentleman (Particular Books £25, March 5, 288 pp) My Town by David Gentleman (Particular Books £25, March 5, 288 pp) Published just before his 90th birthday, this delightful book … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN TIME STOPPED: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER’S WAR by Ariana Neumann (Scribner £16.99, 368pp) In the opening pages of this beautifully written, heart-wrenching memoir of love and family and war is a detailed family tree of the author’s Czech heritage. It seems dauntingly complex as family trees often do, littered … Read more
Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society’s progress than GDP. Source link
Top secondary school students are choosing ‘easy’ books like David Walliams and failing to stretch themselves, study finds Brightest readers at secondary school choosing ‘easy’ books below ability levels Opting for Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and novels of David Walliams Report found 16 out of 20 of most popular books were by Walliams and … Read more