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• WHAT BOOK would Eoin Colfer take to a desert island?

  14-11-2019 23:46 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Eoin Colfer (pictured) discovered reading when his mother handed him Stig Of The Dump by Clive King while he was in bed with the flu.
  
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• Artist Celia Paul loved Lucian Freud so passionately that it made her ill

  14-11-2019 23:14 via Books | Mail Online
  
  The memoir Self-Portrait by Celia Paul details how she fell in love with artist Lucian Freud at the Slade in the 1970s.
  
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• Earl of Sandwich's touching memoirs as he chronicles his father's decline into Alzheimer's disease

  14-11-2019 23:08 via Books | Mail Online
  
  A touching diary of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father's slow decline into Alzheimer's disease and death over eight years.
  
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• Dick Mallaby transmitted vital messages between the Allies and Italians

  14-11-2019 23:04 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Cecil Richard Dallimore-Mallaby was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1919. During the Second World War, in early 1942, he joined the Special Operations Executive.
  
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• How Saudi hit squad butchered the regime's brave critic, Jamal Khashoggi

  07-11-2019 23:37 via Books | Mail Online
  
  The Killing In The Consulate details how Saudi journalist JamalKhashoggi was lured to the Istanbul consulate before he was choked to death.
  
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• DOMINIC LAWSON: Why chess can help new dads change a nappy

  07-11-2019 23:10 via Books | Mail Online
  
  DOMINIC LAWSON: The Moves That Matter is a remarkably self-revealing work by Dr Jonathan Rowson, who attempts to use the 1,500-year-old game of 64 squares as a metaphor for life.
  
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• How the humble coconut shaped the world!

  07-11-2019 23:09 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Photojournalist Robin Laurance explores the history of the humble coconut in his new book Coconut: How The Shy Fruit Shaped Our World.
  
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• WHAT BOOK first turned comedian and writer Arthur Smith to reading?

  07-11-2019 23:05 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Arthur Smith was a voracious reader as a child but the book that stays in his mind is The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes by Phyllis Krasilovsky.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would children's and Gothic novelist Michelle Paver take to a desert island? 

  31-10-2019 23:04 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Michelle Paver would take the SAS Survival Handbook by John 'Lofty' Wiseman to a desert island. The Gothic novelistis currently reading The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
  
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• Time really IS money - yours for $2.4million, the world's most expensive watch

  31-10-2019 23:04 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Three days a week, the 'Clock Woman of London' would travel to Greenwich, synchronise her watch with the time given by the Royal Observatory.
  
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• Her husband died and Mary blossomed

  31-10-2019 23:04 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Clarissa Campbell Orr explores the life of 18th-century artist Mary Delany from Wiltshire in a new biography. Her work truly flourished in her 70s, despite the loss of her husband Patrick Delany.
  
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• Cole Porter wrote songs of such brilliance that we're still humming them 90 years on

  31-10-2019 23:03 via Books | Mail Online
  
  A fascinating collection of letters recounts the life of composer and lyricist Cole Porter. Described as America's Mozart, he counts Miss Otis Regrets and Day And Night among his classics.
  
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• TEEN AND YOUNG ADULT

  31-10-2019 23:02 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Decades ago, the Undersea Gods of Myriad rose up in rage and destroyed one another, as well as hundreds of residents of the region's islands.
  
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• Norman Hartnell: The cross dressing secrets of the Queen's 'Miss Kitty'

  24-10-2019 23:36 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Sir Norman Hartnell began creating uniforms for Selfridges lift girls in the 1920s before working as a dressmaker to Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II.
  
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• They came suited, booted and full of hope - and we betrayed them

  24-10-2019 23:08 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Colin Grant shares accounts of the immigrants who came from the West Indies in search of a better life in Britain. Amelia Gentleman details descendants being classified illegal citizens.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would actress and writer Katy Brand take to a desert island?

  24-10-2019 23:07 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Actress and writer Katy Brand has just finished reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and is excited to begin the new Philip Pullman book.
  
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• How Demi was sold for sex at 15 - by her own mother

  24-10-2019 23:02 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Demi Moore, who is best known for 1993 movie Indecent Proposal, reflects on her life in a new memoir. The 56-year-old recalls being raped by an LA nightclub owner, 48, who paid her mother $500.
  
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• Modest star who showed us all the way to Amarillo

  17-10-2019 23:14 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Tony Christie from Doncaster, who is best known for Comic Relief anthem (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, details his upbringing and lengthy music career in a fascinating autobiography.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would former soldier and bestselling author Andy McNab, take to a desert island? 

  17-10-2019 23:12 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Andy McNab would take the entire works of Charles Dickens to a desert island, or Great Expectations if he could only choose one book. The author is currently reading Talking To Strangers.
  
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• Confessions of the man who failed to nail Savile

  17-10-2019 23:10 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Louis Theroux reflects on his career including his documentary with Jimmy Savile in a memoir. He recounts questioning the former TV presenter about being a paedophile when they met in 2000.
  
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• How Mrs T was turfed out of office with no money in her bank account

  17-10-2019 23:09 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Charles Moore recounts the life of Margaret Thatcher in a third biography. He details the Tory party leader's general election victory in 1987, through to her ejection from office in 1990.
  
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• Thousands of you entered, now meet our winner: I've won - and it's all thanks to Granny!

  17-10-2019 23:00 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Louise Morrish, 45, from Hampshire, has been selected as the winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition. She explained why she owes her success to her late grandmother, Betty.
  
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• Men behind the Bond films knew what was important: car chases, lavish locations - and naked ladies

  10-10-2019 23:30 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Book focuses on commercially-minded producers 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as they worked to turn James Bond into a multimillion pound film.
  
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• Ysenda Maxtone Graham looks into the biography of political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe

  10-10-2019 23:23 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Former Sunday Times and Evening Standard political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe has published his autobiography, revealing how he became a ruthless diminisher of power.
  
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• A magisterial history of the Great War describes how it sparked a social revolution at home

  10-10-2019 23:23 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Simon Heffer has produced his account of how the Great War shaped Britain and changed it forever. Around 705,000 men from the British Isles perished in the fighting.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would top author Adele Parks, take to a desert island?

  10-10-2019 23:13 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Top author Adele Parks, who is currently reading laugh-out-loud book Why Mummy Doesn't give a F***!' said she would take Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to a desert island.
  
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• So who will win the Booker prize? Margaret Atwood's The Testaments comes out on top in betting odds

  10-10-2019 23:11 via Books | Mail Online
  
  The most prestigious award in publishing, The Booker Prize, will be handed out next Monday. Top of the odds is Margaret Atwood's sequel to the Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments.
  
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• The odd couple: Wartime allies and peacetime enemies Attlee and Churchill forged a unique bond

  03-10-2019 23:22 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Despite their rivalry, Churchill and Attlee also respected each other writes Leo McKinstry in his new book. The wartime leader asked Attlee along to a world leaders summit and offered him a valet.
  
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• Julius the chimp watched TV with the children and slept in the family bed, new book reveals

  03-10-2019 23:01 via Books | Mail Online
  
  An autobiography of Julius the Chimpanzee, that was reared with humans and used to share the family bed, has been published. He was reared by keepers at Kristiansand zoo in southern Norway.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would novelist Deborah Moggach, take to a desert island? 

  03-10-2019 23:00 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Deborah Moggach would take Middlemarch and The Lost Continent to a desert island. The novelist revealed that she's currently reading Middlemarch by George Eliot for a third time.
  
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• Dr Who, anorexia and a tough act to follow

  03-10-2019 23:00 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Christopher Eccleston who is best known for portraying the ninth Doctor Who, has detailed his life in a memoir. He revealed that he often channels his father Ronnie Eccleston, when acting.
  
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• Archaeologist and farmer turned author unearths the watery wonders of Britain's 'Holy Land' the Fens

  26-09-2019 23:24 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Archaeologist and farmer Frances Pryor, 74, has written a book about the 1,500 mile square area of land in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk wetlands known as the Fens.
  
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• London's exclusive clubs have always been home to the great, the good and the downright rude

  26-09-2019 23:19 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Stephen Hoare recounts the history of London's clubland. The author recounts the Duke of Wellington being snubbed by Sir Robert Peel, as he advised others never to join the Carlton Club.
  
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• Why stolen diamonds are a girl's best friend

  26-09-2019 23:02 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Doris Payne who funded her lavish lifestyle by stealing, documents the crimes she committed throughout the 1960s and 1970s in a memoir. She recounts growing up poor in Cleveland, Ohio.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would Singer-songwriter and Wombles creator Mike Batt, take to a desert island? 

  26-09-2019 23:02 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Mike Batt would take Johnson & Boswell: A Journey To The Hebrides to a desert island. The Wombles creator revealed that he's currently reading four books including Tumbling Dice.
  
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• Freud's only sexual code of conduct: if you sleep with a woman, take her to lunch the next day! 

  19-09-2019 23:14 via Books | Mail Online
  
  One of Lucian Freud's ex-girlfriends, Anne Dunn, recalls - in this engrossing first volume of William Feaver's biography of the artist - 'Sometimes, instead of counting sheep, I count Lucian's children.'
  
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• WHAT BOOK would best-selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson take to a desert island? 

  19-09-2019 23:03 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Beloved children's author Jacqueline Wilson iscurrently reading Big Sky by Kate Atkinson.
  
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• Why forensic scientists won't eat cauliflower cheese

  19-09-2019 23:02 via Books | Mail Online
  
  In the mortuary, incidentally, stomach contents are removed with a soup ladle, according to a new memoir by forensic scientist Patricia Wiltshire.
  
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• The singer who made Dickens weep . . . and was in a love triangle with the Russian novelist Turgenev

  19-09-2019 23:01 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Orlando Figes's remarkable new book examines the intertwined lives of Turgenev and the Viardots and their connections to the wider world of European culture in the 19th century.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would explorer and writer Levison Wood, take to a desert island?

  12-09-2019 23:11 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Levison Wood would take The Odyssey by Homer to a desert island. The explorer revealed he's currently reading Factfulness, by Hans Rosling.
  
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• The Martians are here - and we're having them for lunch!

  12-09-2019 23:11 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Paul Murdin who is an Emeritus Fellow in the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, explores humankind's knowledge of the solar system in a new book.
  
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• The best philosophy? Have lots of sex! Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

  12-09-2019 23:11 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Kate Kirkpatrick examines the 51 years relationship of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in anew biography. The author uncovers a number of the couple's 'contingent' love affairs.
  
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• What REALLY irked Adolf about Ike: No, not the fact that Eisenhower was Supreme Commander

  12-09-2019 23:05 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Brendan Simms examines Hitler's speeches, remarks and Bavarian archives in a fascinating biography. The author believes Hitler admired the UK and U.S. despite wanting German superiority.
  
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• We had ways of making them talk! British colonel bugged their cells, planted spies among them

  05-09-2019 23:09 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Helen Fry recounts the Trent Park intelligence operation of World War II in a fascinating new book. The bugged mansion house became home to captured German generals.
  
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• Saucepans at the ready when the Mayflower sailed again

  05-09-2019 23:09 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Peter Padfield who was a member of the 50/50 club, shares diary extracts of their 1957 journey from Plymouth to America on board a replica of the Mayflower.
  
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• Theresa May's the hot ticket at Henley

  05-09-2019 23:08 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Former prime minister Theresa May is set to reveal the books that shaped her life in a talk with Olympic gold medallist rower Katherine Grainger at this year's Henley Literary Festival.
  
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• Passionate gardener longing for love: Beth Chatto's Essex garden bloomed to international renown

  05-09-2019 23:08 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Catherine Horwood details the life of Beth Chatto, who was one of the most influential gardeners of the 20th century in a fascinating biography.
  
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• We spent our married life getting into other people's beds!

  29-08-2019 23:56 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Queen Victoria's great-grandson Louis Mountbatten married heiress Edwina Ashley in 1922 - in a wedding attended by the King and Queen and the Prince of Wales.
  
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• Larking about in mud, mud, glorious mud

  29-08-2019 23:41 via Books | Mail Online
  
  For years, Lara Maiklem has been a devoted mudlark, a searcher in the mud of the Thames foreshore. Her early finds included 'an empty duffel bag, two scooters' and 'an old lighter'.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would popular novelist Cecelia Ahern take to a desert island?

  29-08-2019 23:02 via Books | Mail Online
  
  Popular novelist Cecelia Ahern revealed she is currently reading The Chain by Adrian McKinty - which she described as a 'clever' read.
  
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