Samantha Lee Howe: The girl least likely to succeed who rewrote her own future
GROWING up in an abusive household in terror of her violent, drunken father, from the age of 11 Samantha Lee Howe would escape her unhappiness by writing adventure stories. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Upcoming Dame Deborah James book will detail her words of advice for her family
DAME Deborah James tells her children to “marry only for love” and to be prepared for life’s twists and turns, in an inspiring final letter. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
The Night Ship review: ‘wonderful, wonder-filled novel’
THIS brilliant, imaginative tale of magic, heartbreak and dark destinies tells the story of a historic shipwreck. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Charlotte Brontë’s early Book of Rhymes returns home
THIS tiny book by Charlotte Bronte is back home in West Yorkshire nearly 200 years after she wrote it there at 13. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
First come, first served: Why Britain leads the world in queuing
WRITING shortly after the Second World War, the journalist George Mikes famously observed that an ‘Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one’. And we’ve never lost this association. Daily More...
Biography reveals how Roald Dahl’s lifelong belief in magic helped him survive loss
SENT away to boarding school after the death of his father, and often caned, Roald Dahl remembered his schooldays as a ‘black tunnel at the end of which there glimmered a small bright light’. And that More...
Confidence book review: Funny but not short on thrills
The sequel to the joyously funny Conviction sees the return of Anna and Fin, who were catapulted into an unlikely friendship after their spouses ran off with each other. Together, they collaborate on a podcast More...
UK barrister explains how to save our crumbling criminal justice system in new book
IN OUR prison system, there is a good chance the regime is what is commonly referred to as 23-hour bang-up. Which does what it says on the tin: 23 hours a day, seven days a week, in a cell, with or without others. Daily More...
Former Police Commander outlines everything wrong with modern policing in new book
IF YOU are not deeply worried that no fewer than six English police forces are in special measures, you should be. After all, that number includes two of the country’s largest – London’s Metropolitan More...
Rosemary Conley on living her dream as an ice dancing queen
SKATING slowly, I set off across the rink. Eager to impress but careful not to oversell myself. Suddenly Christopher Dean leapt on to the ice, grabbed me and whisked me around the rink. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
