19 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The Boundless Deep Richard Holmes William Collins £25, 448pp: Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?
Tennyson thought so… after devastating grief inspired him to write one of poetry’s most heartbreaking lines
17 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Which 'charming' CANNIBAL would Vaseem Khan take with him to a desert island?
Vaseem Khan answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, and what left him cold?
17 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Despite all of his affairs and her other relationships, Priscilla Presley reveals the truth that she NEVER stopped loving Elvis
She fell in love with him at 14. Now aged 80, Priscilla Presley reveals how, even after their split, she’d abandon her sleeping lover to take Elvis’s calls.
17 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The Immortalists by Aleks Krotoski: The billionaires and tech bros trying to buy eternal life…
Roger Alton uncovers the men trying to buy their way to eternal life in Aleks Krotoski’s fascinating new study of longevity and the search for immortality.
17 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Literary fiction of the highest order: BOG QUEEN by Anna North, HEAP EARTH UPON IT by Chloe Michelle Howarth, THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER by Chris Kraus
Anthony Cummins reviews this week’s literary fiction
16 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Dan Brown's back; this month's popular fiction: PAPER HEART by Cecelia Ahern, THE LONG SHOE by Bob Mortimer, THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown
Wendy Holden reviews this month’s best popular fiction
16 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The Boleyn's bite back in this month's historical fiction: Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory, The Marriage Contract by Sasha Butler, House of Splinters by Laura Purcell
Eithne Farry reviews this month’s best historical fiction
16 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Criminally good crime books: Silent Bones by Val McDermid, The Hawk is Dead by Peter James, Lucky Thing by Tom Baragwanath
Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best crime books out this month
13 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Hostage by Eli Sharabi: First memoir by one of Hamas' Israeli hostages reveals how in a tunnel 100ft deep, bubbling with sewage and crawling with maggots, Eli Sharabi was beaten and humiliated …but knew he had to SURVIVE
Eli Sharabi reveals the truth of what it is like being a hostage of Hamas and how after 491 days he was finally released.
11 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Fires Which Burned Brightly by Sebastian Faulks: How Jane Austen and a fascination with mental illness led to the writing of Birdsong
Ysenda Maxtone Graham discovers the childhood of one of our best loved authors, Sebastian Faulks.