The longlist for the 35th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award – the world’s most valuable literary sports-writing prize – has been revealed, featuring a diverse selection of sports from squash and snooker to swimming and surfing.
The 18-book longlist was selected from more than 150 entries following a rigorous judging process from a panel with expertise in both sports and...
Researchers polled Britons and asked them to vote for their favourite books, from a list of novels from (at the time) first time authors, with the first instalment of Rowling’s Harry Potter series, published in 1997, was most popular, with 31 percent of the vote.
Harper Lee’s historical coming-of-age drama, To Kill a Mockingbird (26 percent) followed close behind, along with JRR...
With unexpected time on her hands due to the lockdown Dame Esther Rantzen is indulging in a ‘book-fest’.
The broadcaster and charity campaigner has re-organised her library – she’s given away hundreds of books – and is enjoying leisurely reading sessions at her home in the New Forest, Hampshire.
“I decided it was the perfect time to scale down my library and re-organise it....
Patrick Ness returns with a powerful story of a world that has dragons in it, and retired Met Police chief superintendent John Sutherland shares what he’s learned.
Fiction
1. Looking For Eliza by Leaf Arbuthnot is published in hardback by Trapeze, priced £14.99 (ebook £7.99). Available now
It’s often hard to consider a book on its own merit when it’s potentially ‘...
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are used to being in each other’s pockets.
The husband-and-wife duo have worked together since they met in 1982 (they both worked for Granada Television at the time), including over a decade as the presenters of ITV hit This Morning.
So, they’re the perfect people to advise couples on how to cope whilst stuck together in lockdown, during the...
With lockdown only set to continue, bolster yourself with a few good reads…
Fiction
1. Redhead By The Side Of The Road by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus, £14.99)
Pulitzer prize winner Anne Tyler’s latest novel focuses on “what goes through the mind of a man like Micah Mortimer”. Micah, an unabashed lover of routine, runs his own one-man IT business helping mostly-...
Bestselling Irish novelist Marian Keyes, 56 – who has brought us love, laughter and all matters of the heart in her many novels, including Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, This Charming Man and The Break – has travelled the world on book tours, charity events and speaking engagements.
Her latest novel Grown Ups follows the trials and tribulations of an extended and...
Jojo Moyes shot to fame with her hit novel Me Before You, which was made into a film starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin.
She now divides her time between writing novels and scriptwriting. Several of her other books, The Last Letter From Your Lover and The Horse Dancer, are currently being filmed, while her latest, The Giver Of Stars, has been optioned by Universal.
