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• Churchill so doted on his son Randolph that he turned into a brat who once urinated on Lloyd George

  17-06-2021 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Josh Ireland has penned a book exploring how the relationship Randolph had with his father Winston Churchill shaped his entire life. Author reveals Churchill lavished his son with love and attention.
  
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• Writers of the early 20th Century who found solace in the South of France 

  17-06-2021 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Julia Carter has created a book of essays featuring six great writers and artists of the early 20th century. Each of them came to the South of France carrying shadows from their pasts that ran into the present.
  
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• Jessie Ware shares touching life stories in a charming new memoir

  17-06-2021 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jessie Ware, who lives in South London, is a singer-songwriter whose latest album reached number 3.
  She shares stories from her life in a charming and funny new memoir.
  
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• Britain's go-to gardener for royals and the REALLY rich

  17-06-2021 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tim Richardson has penned a book about Britain's leading garden designer. Tom Stuart-Smith has designed gardens all over the world including the gardens at Windsor Castle.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would comedian and author Alan Davies take to a desert island? 

  17-06-2021 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alan Davies is currently reading a paperback version of 10:04 by Ben Lerner. The comedian and author would take Hilary Mantel's Tudor novels to a desert island.
  
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• Our demand for £4 chickens and milk at 40p a pint is driving small farmers to despair and ruin 

  10-06-2021 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bella Bathurst who lives in a cottage on 180-acre Rise Farm in Wales, has penned a book about farmers. Author says she has 'never met a group of people who worked harder' than farmers.
  
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• Author reveals common questions asked in job interviews

  10-06-2021 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  William Poundstone has penned an intriguing book about the most common questions asked in job interviews. Author reveals Elon Musk doesn't require academic qualifications for his companies.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would author Victoria Hislop take to a desert island? 

  10-06-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Victoria Hislop is currently reading Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. The author would take War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy to a desert island.
  
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• The cross dressing Communist lesbian, her closet gay ex-husband ... and a love story like no other 

  10-06-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a fascinating biography, Frances Bingham gives a detailed account of Valentine Ackland's life. She had a catastrophic
  marriage before her 38-year love affair with poet Sylvia Townsend Warner.
  
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• Remembering the wood old days! Author says we need 'small-scale circular economies'

  03-06-2021 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Roland Ennos has written a portrait of our debt to the trees. He says we live dependent on stretched supply chains but need to return to 'small-scale circular economies, with timber as a key material.
  
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• Playwright David Storey memoirs reveal the trauma of a man: Too clever to be happy

  03-06-2021 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Storey, born in 1933, from Wakefield, was best known for This Sporting Life. Memoirs edited by his family reveal he was a man filled with self-disgust and guilt about being clever.
  
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• Fourteen years before the South Pole was conquered, a Belgian ship set off for the end of the Earth

  03-06-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Julian Sancton has penned an epic book about Adrien de Gerlache's expedition in 1897. The sailor from Belgium took a crew of just 24 on his voyage to winter in the Antarctic.
  
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• Anya Hindmarch reveals her top tips for business and happiness in a fascinating memoir

  03-06-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anya Hindmarch, 52, shares advice for running a successful business and being happy in a memoir. English fashion designer reveals each of her projects have involved a cycle of emotion.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would Hilary McKay take to a desert island? 

  03-06-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hilary McKay is currently reading a new children's book from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, called Julia And
  The Shark. The author would take The Tailor Of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter to a desert island.
  
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• CHILLERS 

  03-06-2021 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fans of phenomenally successful The Silent Patient will have to prepare themselves for a change of gear with the author's latest offering.
  
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• Author who has been foraging since his early 20s shares the joy of dining on wild foods

  27-05-2021 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Hamilton has penned a book about the popular vegan trend of foraging, as he claims wherever you are in the UK is just a short walk away from a source of wild food.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would author Ben Macintyre take to a desert island? 

  27-05-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ben Macintyre is currently reading the first volume of the diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon (1918-1938). The author would take the collected works of P.G. Wodehouse to a desert island.
  
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• Some wild creatures were too tasty to survive, but the result is a real feast 

  27-05-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a new nature book, Michael Blencowe investigates 11 species that have gone extinct. Among the creatures is the great auk. The last of the birds in North America were eaten by sailors.
  
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• Abducted from school by terrorists, their kidnap made headlines: why haven't they been rescued?

  27-05-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw who are Pulitzer nominated American Wall Street Journal reporters, have penned a book about the kidnapping of 276 girls in Nigeria, taken by Boko Haram in 2014.
  
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• Psychology professor explores the workings of the human mind in a fascinating new tome 

  27-05-2021 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Paul Minda has penned a wide-ranging book on the workings of the mind. The author uses the case of an epileptic named Henry Molaison to illustrate the importance of memory.
  
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• Author who has been forging since his early 20s shares the joy of dining on wild foods

  27-05-2021 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Hamilton has penned a book about the popular vegan trend of foraging, as he claims wherever you are in the UK is just a short walk away from a source of wild food.
  
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• The little bird with very large songbook: A delightful miscellany of nightingale fact and fiction

  20-05-2021 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the silence of lockdown, many Brits will have enjoyed their first encounter with what folk singer Sam Lee describes as the little bird's 'language of enchantment'.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would poet and novelist Sophie Hannah take to a desert island?

  20-05-2021 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sophie Hannah is currently reading The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. The novelist and poet said she would take Collected Poems by C.H. Sisson to a desert island.
  
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• Richard Browning was determined to reach for the stars now he's flying high with billionaire backing

  20-05-2021 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Browning, the British inventor of a 'jet suit' was always determined to fly. Despite crashes and burns, he's now flying high with billionaire backing.
  
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• Juicy tales of the world's smelliest fruit!

  20-05-2021 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kate Lebo from the U.S, has penned a new book about difficult to grow and challenging to cook fruits.The poet reveals her husband once had to beg her to throw away a smelly durian fruit.
  
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• David 'Mr Banks' Tomlinson took his medicine, landed a part in Mary Poppins - and made a fortune 

  20-05-2021 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nathan Morley has penned a new biography about English actor David Tomlinson who was best known for starring in Disney films Mary Poppins and Bedknobs And Broomsticks.
  
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• The reason Alfred Hitchcock knew how to terrify was that he himself was scared of almost EVERYTHING

  13-05-2021 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alfred Hitchcock was born in 1899 above the family grocery shop in Leytonstone. In a new biography, Edward White explores the influences behind the director's 53 films.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would journalist and novelist Tom Bradby take to a desert island? 

  13-05-2021 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tom Bradby is currently reading True Crime Story by Joseph Knox. The novelist and journalist would take Len Deighton Game, Set & Match trilogy to a desert island.
  
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• The water vole are as vicious as they are cunning. They're also in danger of vanishing for ever

  13-05-2021 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tom Moorhouse who is a researcher at Oxford University's zoology department, has penned a book about voles. The creature was the model for sensible, kindly Ratty of Wind In The Willows.
  
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• Woman who spent three years working in the world's most famous Army regiment

  13-05-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Monica Lavers who spent three years working in the world's most famous Army regiment, has penned a book about her experience. She was one of just a few women in the SAS.
  
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• Was Bard's patriot Prince really a butcher's boy? Author examines John of Gaunt's life

  13-05-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Helen Carr has penned an absorbing new biography about John of Gaunt who was the son of king Edward III. Born in 1340 in Ghent, he was one of the most important figures in medieval Europe.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would novelist David Baldacci take to a desert island? 

  06-05-2021 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Baldacci is currently reading Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. The novelist said he would take Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe to a desert island.
  
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• Historian reveals Napoleon was a man who loved nature

  06-05-2021 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ruth Scurr has penned an original account of the life of Napoleone di Buonaparte who was born on the island of Corsica in 1769. Biography reveals the soldier was also a gardener.
  
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• New history of homicide shows killing's not always an open and shut case

  06-05-2021 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sailors Thomas Dudley and Edwin Stephens were accused of murdering their ship's cabin boy in 1884.Kate Morgan has penned an account of how laws surrounding murder have subtly changed.
  
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• Booze made Dylan Thomas bark like a dog and left Kingsley Amis barely able to walk

  06-05-2021 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  William Palmer has penned a book about notable writers who drank alcohol heavily. Among the creatives is Graham Greene who lived to be 86, despite consuming 'spirits and wine' daily.
  
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• Authors share their personal accounts of curing depression by putting one foot in front of the other

  06-05-2021 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robert Martineau gives an account of his experience of walking to cure depression in a new book. Meanwhile, Jake Tyler shares walking around the coast of Great Britain.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would novelist Wilbur Smith take to a desert island?

  29-04-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wilbur Smith is currently reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. The novelist would take The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck to a desert island.
  
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• Behind sun-kissed image of pop legend and his friends lay a much darker story

  29-04-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mermaid Singing and Peel Me A Lotus are Charmian Clift's accounts of life on islands Kalymnos and Hydra, where Leonard Cohen stayed with them and worked on their terrace.
  
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• Author explores science behind children who fall into a mystery coma

  29-04-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Suzanne O'Sullivan studied the 169 children in a mystery coma in Sweden and said their illness was psychosomatic - saying it was real to sufferer as easily identifiable diseases.
  
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• Lie that lost Hitler the war: He'd reckoned without two deadly weapons: patriotism and the weather 

  29-04-2021 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When Germany suddenly launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler, in blind racial ignorance, expected the communist untermenschen to scatter before his superior Aryan Nazis.
  
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• Author explores how nature provided hope throughout 'the silence' of 2020 in a fascinating new book 

  22-04-2021 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Steven Lovatt who has been a bird-lover since childhood, found his old passion reignited during daily walks in South Wales. In a new book he explores the hope represented by birdsong.
  
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• New book gives a thrillingly dramatic account of the Cuban missile crisis

  22-04-2021 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Serhii Plokhy who is a Harvard professor of history, has penned an account of how America and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war in October 1962.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would novelist Polly Samson take to a desert island? 

  22-04-2021 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Polly Samson is currently reading For Esme - With Love And Squalor by J.D. Salinger.The novelist would take all seven volumes of Proust to a desert island.
  
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• Thom Gunn devoted himself to a life of hedonism...and horticulture

  22-04-2021 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer have compiled letters written by Thom Gunn for a biography that gives insight into the gay world of San Francisco before the Aids epidemic.
  
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• TEEN & YOUNG ADULTS 

  22-04-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'That morning, with the dawn hanging wet and pale over the marshes, Scarlett McCain woke up beside four dead men.'
  
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• GOTHIC FANTASY 

  15-04-2021 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Settle in for an utterly compelling blend of propulsive narrative, starkly beautiful writing and passionate, near dysfunctional love
  
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• WHAT BOOK would Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart take to a desert island?

  15-04-2021 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Douglas Stuart is currently reading Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan.The Booker Prize winner said he would take Maria McCann's As Meat Loves Salt to a desert island.
  
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• Writer Barbara Pym's brilliant novels were inspired by the often horrible men she was drawn to

  15-04-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paula Byrne has penned a biography about Barbara Pym, from Oswestry, Shropshire, whose great novels include Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women as well as Jane And Prudence.
  
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• Shattering accounts of the Great War, from those left to grieve

  15-04-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Historian David Hargreave and his researcher Margaret-Louise O'Keeffe have collated first-hand testimonies from those who were in World War I, for a book of new insights from the period.
  
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• Fascinating account of the lives of Manx shearwaters in a nature book

  15-04-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Roger Morgan-Grenvill explores the lives of Manx shearwaters found on the island of Rum in Scotland, in a new nature book. The author reveals the birds spend 90 per cent of their lives at sea.
  
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