Book review: I’m Not With The Band
DURING the 1980s, the thump of Smash Hits on the doormat was the highlight of the fortnight for a million young readers. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Book Review: The Beautiful Game – a footballing feast for the eyes
DID you know West Ham have 271 members of full-time staff? Or that Cristiano Ronaldo was the first player to score in each of the 90 minutes of a football match? How about the percentage of career-ending injuries that involve the knee? The Beautiful Game decodes these weird and often unheard of football stats in […]
Book review: Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
NINA STIBBE’S first book Love, Nina was a wry, quirky collection of the letters she wrote aged 20 to her sister, capturing the comic minutiae of life as a nanny in a literary household that was Alan Bennett’s home from home. Daily Express :: Books Feed
New book ‘Shakespeare’s Gardens’ looks at green places where the bard was inspired
The Bard’s plays are full of flowery quotes; in the year we mark the 400th anniversary of his death a new book digs into the places where he discovered the green shoots of creativity Daily Express :: Travel Feed
Book Reviews: Black Water, Paradise Lodge and The Crime Writer
TROUBLED lives – Three engrossing novels about minds in turmoil Daily Express :: Books Feed
Book review: Love From Boy – Roald Dahl’s Letters to His Mother
IT’S hard enough these days to get children to write thank-you letters for birthday or Christmas gifts. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Book review: Forever Young, the story of Manchester United’s forgotten talent
FOREVER YOUNG chronicles the story of a talented footballer Adrian Doherty who became a Manchester United apprentice and was on the brink of breaking into the first team before a serious knee injury put paid to his hopes of carving out a professional career. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Book reviews: The Long Weekend and Kick
HIGH society – From eccentric peers to tragic love affairs, how the upper classes lived in the last century. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Book reviews: The Lost Tommies, The Gustav Sonata and The Death of an Owl
Our pick of this week’s book releases. Daily Express :: Books Feed
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery Of A Victorian Child Murderer and Serious Sweet- Book reviews
A MURDER mystery and a novel full of hope are this week’s double bill. Daily Express :: Books Feed