WHAT BOOK would novelist Maggie Shipstead take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would Maggie Shipstead bring to a desert island? Maggie Shipstead is currently reading The Far Land by Brandon Presser Novelist would take War And Peace to a desert…
A new book explores just about every area of life
RUTHERFORD & FRY’S COMPLETE GUIDE TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING by Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry (Bantam £16.99, 304 pp) After the 2010 ‘Flash Crash’ — a frenzied half-hour in which billions…
10-year-old boy sobs after bullies trolled his Tony Stark costume
A 10-year old boy was mocked because of his Tony Stark costume. But he decided not to listen to the bullies and wore the costume to school’s Halloween celebration. Jill…
JAN MOIR: The PC royalettes can step aside – Camilla is the one with real courage
This week, a female monarch took a stand on the controversial topic of sexual violence against women. Instead of the usual polite banalities, grandstanding, and polite banalities that we have…
Jack Whitehall and his father Michael make unlikely travelling companions
TRAVEL HOW TO SURVIVE FAMILY OLIDAYS by Jack Whitehall with Hilary and Michael Whitehall (Sphere £18.99, 288 pp) Winter is coming, nights are drawing in, celebrity autobiographies have started to…
Lewis Hamilton dons cunning disguise to surprise pupils on school trip to Mercedes racing HQ
Lew, is that a boy? Lewis Hamilton, Formula 1 ace, surprises pupils with clever disguise during school trip to Mercedes racing headquarters. Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton was unrecognisable in…
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Rishi Sunak has picked pockets of Middle England
Although delivered by Dishi Rishi, we’re told this was Boris Johnson’s Budget. It sounded more like Carrie Antoinette. Let them have prosecco! When the dust settles, it’s going to take…
Alec Baldwin gun tragedy would NEVER happen here: Matthew Vaughn blames ‘gun culture’ of the US
Film maker Matthew Vaughn, director and producer behind some of our best known action movies, said America’s ‘mad, obsessive gun culture’ was to blame for the tragic shooting involving Hollywood…
GORDON BROWN: Hoarding jabs we don’t need but the rest of the world does will be a scar on our souls
When Covid is published in the history books, we will be able to remember the heroism of our healthcare workers and the genius of our vaccine creators. Despite their efforts,…
A very unlikely sex god: H.G. Wells wrote some of the greatest science fiction of all time
BOOK OF THURSDAY THE YOUNG H.G. WELLS by Claire Tomalin (Viking £20, 272 pp) H. G. Wells’ classic science-fiction works, The Time Machine (1895), and The War Of The Worlds…