A second helping of Chips: Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-1943
Earlier this year, the first unexpurgated volume of the diaries of Tory MP “Chips” Channon was published to universal acclaim. A Bowdlerised edition had been published in 1967 based on material supplied to the editor, Robert Rhodes James, by Channon’s boyfriend but the March publication was the first time the full text was published. Daily More...
The story of Katherine Ryan’s laugh: The Audacity
Comedian Katherine Ryan receives letters from fans asking “how to match my lurid level of courage and assurance”, or, as she puts it, her audacity. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
This Much Is True – Miriam Margolye: The most invigoratingly outspoken memoirs I’ve read
IF there is a silver lining to last year’s lockdown, it’s the fact that Miriam Margolyes finally had time to write her life story. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Josh Widdicombe’s comedy has gone from screen to paper… Watching Neighbours Twice a Day
JOSH Widdicombe was not an outdoorsy child. In his view, racing a bike around his home village in Dartmoor never matched the thrill of “watching Neil Buchanan make a big picture of a washing machine out of More...
Why Daniel Craig is the Bond his creator would have recognised
AS HIS FINAL outing as 007 opens in cinemas, true Fleming fans will mourn the star’s flawed, vulnerable superspy, reveals author and expert. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Dyslexic author overcomes school mockery and publishes sixth book
WHEN Adam Searle was a boy he was mocked by peers and teachers for his dyslexia but he has proved them all wrong by publishing his sixth book. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Robert Harris NEEDED Jeremy Irons playing Chamberlain to show how tough the PM really was
AS HIS Munich Crisis bestseller comes to the big screen with a more muscular take on the PM long derided as an appeaser, and his prized Cicero trilogy is republished in a single volume, leading historical novelist More...
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr: A timeless tale
The theme of Anthony Doerr’s latest novel is the transformative, life-enhancing power of books. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Colm Tóibín portrays author Thomas Mann in The Magician: ‘Superb characterisation’
BROOKLYN author Tóibín returns to themes of displacement and loss in his compelling new novel about troubled German author Thomas Mann. He was in exile even in his homeland, a gay man who married a woman, a writer More...
Father’s Salmon Fishing In The Yemen novel inspired Piers Torday to become a writer
AUTHOR Paul Torday became an overnight bestseller at 59 with his comic novel about a hare-brained scheme to introduce angling to the desert. His career was cruelly cut short by cancer but today his son Piers is More...