WHAT BOOK would novelist John Lanchester take to a desert island? John Lancaster just finished reading Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror And The Light He revealed he would take the complete Shakespeare to a desert island Novelist said he has been an addicted reader since he could first read books By John Lanchester for the Daily … Read more
When one of the most powerful explosions on record tore through our eighth-floor apartment in central Beirut last month, it felt like the end of the world. In that millisecond, hundreds of thousands of people didn’t know if they would live or die. My mother and I were catapulted into the living room from our … Read more
Let’s not get too hung up about age. After all, as the perennially youthful Joan Collins is fond of reminding us, ‘it’s just a number’. Joan’s husband Percy Gibson is 55. ‘If he dies, he dies,’ the actress and writer famously quipped when pressed about the significant age difference between them. But how does her … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Anne Tyler take to a desert island? Anne Tyler has recently finished reading Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows She would take Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples to a desert island American novelist said Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: … Read more
WHAT BOOK would fantasy novelist Sarah J. Maas take to a desert island? Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh’s A Madness Of Sunshine She would take Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game to a desert island American novelist said George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:05 BST, 2 … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Annalena McAfee take to a desert island? Novelist Annalena McAfee would take Palgrave’s Golden Treasury on an island She is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul The novelist said that comics and joke books first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 GMT, … Read more
Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford is told to remove ‘Blackie’ from new book cover over publisher’s racism fears Barbara Taylor Bradford says book title Blackie and Emma has been scrapped She accused publishing house HarperCollins of pressuring her to change title Customers feared to misinterpret name Blackie for term of derision or insult Taylor Bradford alleged … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island? Sebastian Barry would take Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert on a desert island The Costa-winning novelist said Sir Philip Sidney’s The Old Arcadia left him cold He said he has no memory of being able to read until he was around eight By Daily … Read more
WHAT BOOK would children’s and Gothic novelist Michelle Paver take to a desert island? Michelle Paver is currently reading Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House She would take SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman to a desert island The novelist revealed My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
Novelist SADIE JONES was blindsided when her stepdaughter took her own life while under hospital supervision. Speaking for the first time, she tells Elizabeth Day why, two years on, the family are still searching for answers – and peace ‘There’s before Daisy and there’s after,’ says Sadie Jones. ‘Everything has changed. We are in a … Read more