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• Beatles and Bowie featurea as '60s reporter releases memoir

  02-07-2020 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dan Short who was a showbusiness reporter for the Daily Mirror in the Sixties and Seventies, has penned a memoir. The British journalist knew The Beatles, The Stones, Bowie and Roger Moore.
  
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• Will someone please marry my husband?

  02-07-2020 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Krouse Rosenthal who died from cancer in 2017, penned an ad for her husband of 26 years just ten days before she passed. Jason Rosenthal has penned a memoir about their marriage.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite take to a desert island?

  02-07-2020 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oyinkan Braithwaite is currently reading The Chain by Adrian McKinty. The novelist would take Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte to a desert island.
  
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• PSYCHOS 

  02-07-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Verity Baxter is a lonely lexicographer and we are treated to a new word with its definition at the start of each chapter
  
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• Lord Boothby had an affair with Macmillan's wife - all the while protected by an Establishment

  02-07-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daniel Smith explores the conspiracy of silence surrounding Sir Robert Boothby in a new book. He suggests Parliament and the Press were quiet about the British politician in fear of scandal.
  
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• How bikes allowed women to wear the trousers

  02-07-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tim Harford reveals the history behind a variety of trivial objects including pencils, stamps and trousers, in a sequel to his bestselling book Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy.
  
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• Man whose family fled Taliban for UK releases gripping memoir

  25-06-2020 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hamed Amiri has penned a memoir about his family's terrifying journey to the UK from Taliban-ruled Herat, Afghanistan. He explains they chose the UK because his brother needed surgery.
  
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• It shouldn't happen to a volunteer!

  25-06-2020 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Julian Rota who spends his spare time volunteering at Trindledown Farm in Berkshire, has penned a memoir about his experiences. He reveals it's rewarding to gain the animals trust.
  
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• The age-old search for mystical meaning

  25-06-2020 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Gosden explores the history of magic in a fascinating tome, as a recent Census discovers that 56,620 British people identify as pagan.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would fashion guru and writer Susannah Constantine take to a desert island?  

  25-06-2020 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Susannah Constantine is currently reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. The British fashion guru would take WinterDance: The Fine Madness Of Alaskan Dog Racing to a desert island.
  
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• Tending and growing plants has always proved to be therapeutic for a troubled mind 

  25-06-2020 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sue Stuart-Smith has penned a new book exploring gardening as a form of therapy. British psychiatrist suggests the activity can provide a psychological lifeline to soldiers away from home.
  
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• LITERARY FICITION 

  25-06-2020 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I loved the opening to this tonally unpredictable state-of-the-nation novel, which nods to Patricia Highsmith's Strangers On A Train
  
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• You're only lonely when you HAVE to be alone

  18-06-2020 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Vincent examines what being alone has meant to Britons down the ages. Author argues feeling about solitude, depend on how we switch from being on our own and being in company.
  
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• The Purple Emperor spends his life boozing, fighting and fornicating for hours

  18-06-2020 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British author Matthew Oates, who has spent more than 50 years examining Purple Emperors, has penned a new book about the majestic creatures.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would crime writer Karin Slaughter take to a desert island?  

  18-06-2020 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karin Slaughter is currently reading The Glass House by Emily St. John Mandel. The American crime writer would take The Complete Harry Potter Series to a desert island.
  
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• Dying to change the world? History is littered with brutal political assassinations

  18-06-2020 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A gripping new history book penned by Kenneth Baker, examines more than a hundred political murders including that of Martin Luther King and President John F.
  Kennedy.
  
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• Charming new book celebrates the history of traditional seaside trips in Britain 

  18-06-2020 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kathryn Ferry explores the history of British seaside objects in a charming new tome. Among her collection of photos is a snap taken by a typical 1930s promenade photographer.
  
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• 'I didn't sleep with everyone...I wouldn't have had time to paint!'

  11-06-2020 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sculptor Barbara Hepworth and painter Ben Nicholson joined a group of friends on holiday in Norfolk in 1931. And it took them just a few days to fall passionately in love.
  
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• What a 1,791-mile swim around Britain teaches you about resilience - and giant jellyfish

  11-06-2020 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ross Edgley reveals his account of his swim round Britain, starting in Margate in June 2018. His epic journey: 157 days at sea, 1,791 miles is the equivalent of swimming the Channel 85 times.
  
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• Roll back the years with rumba

  11-06-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jane Gordon had a terrifying 60mph car accident which left her severely bruised and battered. The British writer reveals how we should 'use it or lose it' in her new book.
  
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• What life was like as a child during World War II

  11-06-2020 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World War II, as we were recently reminded by the commemoration of VE Day, finished 75 years ago. Men and women in their 80s and 90s, were mostly children during the war.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would presenter and writer Konnie Huq take to a desert island? 

  11-06-2020 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British TV presenter and writer Konnie Huq said she would take A Song Of Ice And Fire series [which was adapted into TV show Game Of Thrones] on a desert island with her as it is time-consuming.
  
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• SF AND FANTASY  

  11-06-2020 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It may be Paris, but gay it ain't. The revolution has failed, the aristocrats flounce safely in their grandes maisons while the poor must flounder in the merde.
  
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• A tale of two Dickenses: The author was a champion of the oppressed but at home he was a cruel bully

  04-06-2020 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A.N Wilson brilliantly probes and teases out in these seven 'mysteries' of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. The English writer had a had a traumatic childhood.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would author Jane Harper take to a desert island?

  04-06-2020 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian author Jane Harper said she would take Killing Floor by Lee Child on a desert island with her. She said The Witches by Roald Dahl first gave her the reading bug.
  
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• Why my love affair with Jack was a let down

  04-06-2020 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Susanna Moore was invited by American singer Art Garfunkel to stop by and use his pool where she found him and Jack Nicholson lounging naked by the water's edge.
  
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• How the settings for the aggression level of Tesla's computerised driver hardly inspire confidence

  04-06-2020 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In Taiwan, a Tesla model 3, allegedly on autopilot assistance, crashed into an overturned truck blocking the lane. The settings for the aggression level are named 'mild' and 'Mad Max'.
  
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• How Dr Asperger sent children to their deaths

  04-06-2020 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hans Asperger was a young paediatrician working in Vienna at the time. Today, as Sheffer points out, his name is 'part of our daily lives'. Asperger's Syndrome is a form of autism.
  
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• PYSCHO THRILLERS  

  04-06-2020 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Poppy's chance meeting with her old boyfriend Matthew explodes her stale marriage and tidy life with dentist husband Stuart, two daughters and super nice mother-in-law Betty.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would writer Nina Stibbe take to a desert island? 

  28-05-2020 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nina Stibbe is currently reading Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann. The British writer would take The Complete Works Of Sue Townsend to a desert island.
  
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• Dara McAnulty has the rare gift of evoking the natural world

  28-05-2020 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dara McAnulty, 17, from Northern Ireland, who is best known for running a popular blog about his adventures, has penned his first book, Diary
  Of A Young Naturalist.
  
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• Friends, flowers and foolproof pastry

  28-05-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British garden designer Jo Thompson and cook Mary Jane Paterson have penned a new book offering their expert cooking and gardening advice.
  
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• Andre Leon Talley thought the love of his fashionista friends would last for ever

  28-05-2020 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andre Leon Talley who grew up in Durham, North Carolina, reflects on his life in a fascinating new memoir. He details how his relationship with fashion industry insiders came to an end.
  
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• Author pens fascinating tome charting the history behind his family's wealth

  28-05-2020 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Atkinson who lives in London, has penned a book that delves into his family history. He was inspired after discovering a box that revealed his ancestors once owned slaves.
  
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• TEENAGE  

  28-05-2020 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emily Lockhart captures the complexity of teenage life in richly layered and sometimes darkly thrilling novels
  
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• Welsh doctors were desperate to deliver the first baby on the NHS in tribute to founder

  21-05-2020 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Edna May Rees prepared to deliver her seventh childthree minutes before midnight on the night of July 4, 1948 in hopsital west Wales. She was the first woman to give birth on the NHS.
  
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• My father's swear words were 'Laura' and 'Ashley': SHELLEY KLEIN shares her childhood home

  21-05-2020 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shelley Klein in her memoir The See-Through House reveals life as a teenager growing up inside a house in High Sunderland in the Scottish Borders that had no interior doors.
  
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• A dark, rich history of coffee (with a bitter after-taste): The bean that took over the world 

  21-05-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The book focuses largely on one plantation owner in El Salvador and his family since 1889, which has itsshare of exploitation and brutality. Billions of cups of coffee are drunk around the world each year.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would children's author David McKee take to a desert island? 

  21-05-2020 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David McKee is currently dipping in and out of a biography of Marquet or The Big Art Book by Phaidon. The British writer said he would take Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings on a desert island.
  
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• Bomber like a startled stallion: How the Lancaster was more than just an aircraft

  21-05-2020 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Nichol describes visiting the RAF Museum at Hendon in the company of Ron Needle, 93, a former rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber crew. The Lancaster was, and is, more than just an aircraft.
  
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• FANTASY AND SCI-FI

  21-05-2020 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's grim up north in Koli's post-apocalyptic world. Beyond the stockade of his Calder Valley village prowl mutant animals and lethal vegetation: dog-sized rats, horse-sized swine.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would author Adele Parks take to a desert island? 

  14-05-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adele Parks is currently reading The Governess by Wendy Holden. The British writer would take Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy to a desert island.
  
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• Was this the most disturbed family in America? 

  14-05-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robert Kolker has penned a fascinating book about the link between the Galvin family and the history of schizophrenia. American couple Don and Mimi, had ten boys and two girls.
  
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• Majestic giants terrified of a tiny bee!

  14-05-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Levison Wood has penned a new book, which sparks a conversation about ensuring the survival of elephants.Author reveals there's fewer than half a million of the animals on the continent of Africa.
  
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• Geek who brought chaos to the financial world - from his bedroom in his parents' semi in Hounslow

  14-05-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liam Vaughan explores when the world's markets briefly sank in a new book. Trader Navinder Singh Sarao, who lived in Hounslow was prosecuted after U.S. authorities found evidence.
  
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• Lusty letters and the love of a good mollocking

  14-05-2020 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fascinating history book reveals the wartime letters between Eileen Alexander from London and Cambridge postgraduate Gershon Ellenbogen, who married in 1944.
  
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• WHAT BOOK would writer Emily Gunnis take to a desert island? 

  07-05-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emily Gunnis is currently reading Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey. The British writer would take The Wicked Wit Of Winston Churchill to a desert island.
  
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• Life on the ocean wave was a floating HELL! 

  07-05-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stephen Taylor examines the 'heroic age of sail' in a fascinating new book. The British author reveals how more sailors died from fever and accidents, than in war.
  
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• I just wish Hitler could hear the cheering! That was one little girl's take on VE Day

  07-05-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maureen Waller's detailed portrait of London in 1945, has been reissued in paperback to commemorate this year'sanniversary of VE Day.
  
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• Can hope and happiness cure the incurable?

  07-05-2020 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jeffrey Rediger who is a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, has penned a book about wellness. American author calls for Western doctors to embrace the 'medicine of hope'.
  
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