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• From the Killing Fields to Canterbury: the life of a stonemason

  12-06-2026 18:09 via dailymail.com
  
  Simon Warrack has led an Indiana Jones-esque life of adventure, but rather than a whip he's armed with a hammer and chisel.
  
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• A curmudgeon in a cassock: the weird, wonderful and hilarious world of David Sedaris

  12-07-2026 11:06 via dailymail.com
  
  From the a trip to the Vatican to a shotgun wedding, no one can make a reader laugh out loud quite as hard as David Sedaris
  
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• Will AI turn us all into paperclips?

  12-07-2026 11:05 via dailymail.com
  
  ...while the answer is probably no the philosopher Nick Bostrom is asking the questions of what our future with AI could possibly look like.
  
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• What it's really like for people who's lives are torn apart by their loved ones going missing

  12-07-2026 11:05 via dailymail.com
  
  A person is reported missing in the UK every 90 seconds, on average. Most of them return, but 13,000 have not.
  
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• The real reason why it's almost impossible to get away with murder from one of the worlds leading forensic scientists

  10-07-2026 18:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Professor Dame Sue Black's career has taken her from war crimes investigations in Kosovo to identifying bodies after the 2004 Asian tsunami.
  
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• Queenie returns in this month's popular fiction: THE FRENCH SPYMISTRESS by Rachel Hore, LET'S NOT GO OVERBOARD HERE by Erica Hendry, QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT by Candice Carty-Williams

  10-07-2026 11:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Wendy Holden reviews
  
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• Melancholy and magic in this month's historical fiction: Roman Mornings by Matson Taylor, Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

  10-07-2026 11:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Eithne Farry reviews
  
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• Horror in the highlands in this month's crime fiction: From The Shadows by G. R. Halliday, The Tailor by Tim Sullivan, Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher

  10-07-2026 11:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Geoffrey Wansell reviews
  
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• Cocaine, cooking and how my late father 
A. A. Gill's memoir saved my life...

  09-07-2026 19:54 via dailymail.com
  
  After a privileged upbringing Alasdair Gill became addicted to drink and class-A drugs, but when doctors revealed he wouldn't make it to Christmas he knew he had to get help
  
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• Leverets and loss in this week's literary fiction: Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley, A Real Piece of Work by Freya Bromley, The Leveret by Anna Goldreich

  07-07-2026 18:34 via dailymail.com
  
  Stephanie Cross
  
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• From a psychopathic ancient warrior to a ruthless media mogul, a sex-change travel writer and insider accounts of Westminster, Balmoral, prison and Bake Off… These are the 22 best non-fiction books to read this summer

  05-07-2026 10:41 via dailymail.com
  
  These are our picks of the best biographies, memoirs, and science, history and current affairs books you should be reading now.
  
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• Summer books for grown-ups... who still want a scorching read: No airport novels here - our reviewers select the 27 best intelligent page-turners to make your holiday sizzle

  02-07-2026 19:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Our experts have reviewed over 300 books this year and have whittled down their summer picks to just 27 of the best.
  
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• Summer books for grown-ups... who still want a scorching read: No airport novels here - our reviewers select the 18 best intelligent page-turners to make your holiday sizzle

  02-07-2026 18:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Our experts have reviewed over 300 books this year and have whittled down their summer picks to just 18 of the best.
  
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• The best books for kids and young adults this summer

  02-07-2026 18:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Our expert children's reviewer, Sally Morris, picks out the best books for your kids to take on their summer holiday
  
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• Are star ratings actually helping us make decisions, or do they cause more damage than they're worth

  28-06-2026 11:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Shakespeare isn't worrying about his 3.91 Goodreads score for King Lear, but a debut author probably would.
  
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• The people who took Putin to court and won

  28-06-2026 11:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Putin's vast war chest was built off of the back of robbing the richest men in Russia, Sixsmith reveals the story of the men who took on the tyrant
  
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• Joanna Stern spent a year living with AI and allowing robots to do everything for her...what she discovered proves why they'll never replace us

  28-06-2026 11:04 via dailymail.com
  
  When it comes to AI it's important to ask the big questions... is it going to steal our jobs? Most important of all, will it help with the laundry?
  
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• Time travelling turmoil in this week's science fiction: Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne, Not With a Bang by Temi Oh, The Traveler by Joseph Eckert

  26-06-2026 11:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Jamie Buxton Reviews
  
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• Lisa Jewell returns in this week's psychological thrillers: It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell, You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen, Our Last Resort by Clemence Michallon

  26-06-2026 11:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Christena Appleyard Reviews
  
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• Leveret's and loss in this weeks literary fiction: Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley, A Real Piece of Work by Freya Bromley, The Leveret by Anna Goldreich

  26-06-2026 11:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Stephanie Cross
  
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• 'There are scenes here that make Rivals look like The Good Life'...check out the best in Romantasy: The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden, Kissed by the Gods by Caty Rogan, Ravenous by Kresley Cole

  26-06-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Jamie Buxton
  
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• Playful otters and loveless swans...life in an ancient mill

  26-06-2026 10:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Simon Cooper has spent 20 years keenly observing the wildlife around the Corn Mill in Nether Wallop.
  
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• Psychopathic sex God...new research uncovers the real Alexander the Great

  25-06-2026 18:00 via dailymail.com
  
  He conquered most the known world, killing hundreds of thousands but left an incredible legacy which forever changed 'the stars in the sky and the words on this page'
  
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• Jonathan Swift's 22-point critique...of his friend's servant

  21-06-2026 11:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The mischief and adventures of three of the greatest minds of the 18th century over the course of one summer
  
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• How to be a real influencer...Victorian style!

  21-06-2026 11:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The remarkable countess who used her powers of seduction to ensure her her brother then her lover became prime minister
  
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• When being fat was the height of fashion

  19-06-2026 13:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Erin Maglague tells the riotous and sometimes worrying history of women's bodies
  
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• The latest from ex FBI director James Comey in this week's thrillers: Solitary Agents by David Goodman, The Death Row Club by V. A. Vazquez, Red Verdict by James Comey

  19-06-2026 13:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Geoffrey Wansell reviews
  
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• Sultry summers and polyamoury in this week's literary fiction: SKIN CONTACT by Elisa Faison, THE SUMMER BOY by Philippe Besson, ALL MY LOVE by Agnes Lidbeck

  19-06-2026 13:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Stephanie Cross reviews
  
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• A baby, a deadly secret and ruined dreams - this month's retro reads: THE GIRLS by John Bowen, THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS by Rosamond Lehmann, THE ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE by W. E. Bowman

  19-06-2026 13:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Sally Morris reviews
  
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• Little Women for the modern age in this week's contemporary fiction: All Grown Up by Daisy Buchanan, Pool House by Mary H. K. Choi, If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle

  19-06-2026 13:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Sara Lawrence
  
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