My top ten books of the year
Newspapers are busy filling their pages with their top tens of the year. 2009 has been a vintage year for fiction so here are a few of my Christmas must-reads. High-brow, low-brow, you name it, it’s...
View ArticleHooked on Lynda La Plante
Crime has never been my favourite fiction genre. I’m absurdly squeamish and hate reading anything gory. But over the last three years I’ve become hooked on Lynda La Plante’s compelling Anna Travis...
View ArticleGreat autumn reads – and only two weeks to wait for Jilly Cooper’s new book
With the nights drawing in and an autumn chill in the air, I escaped to a remote Lake District farmhouse with a stash of new books to read. There are some great new reads out this month – including...
View ArticleCocktails, handbags and designer heels – celebrating the RNA’s 50th birthday
Which romantic novelist helped Jews to escape from Nazi Germany? What did WAG mean back in 1974? Who was the first man to win the Romantic Novel of the Year award? These are just some of the thorny...
View ArticleA modern family Christmas – India Knight’s insightful new novel
On the last day of November every year I hang a faded purple velvet advent calendar up in the kitchen and fill the 24 pockets with sweets. My daughter’s at university now and at 16 my son thinks advent...
View ArticleMy favourite books of 2010
January is always a dreary month – but it’s even worse than usual this year. VAT’s gone up, it’s freezing cold outside and most of my time is spent chivvying my teenage son to revise for his impending...
View Article“Never trust a man with two mobile phones”
I once had to spend a month lying on my right-hand side after an eye operation. I couldn’t read, use the internet or watch TV but funnily enough, the days flew by – mainly thanks to the novelist Marian...
View ArticleJojo Moyes wins Romantic Novel of the Year award
One book stood out a mile on the shortlist for the 2011 Romantic Novel of the Year award. The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes is, as I wrote in the Daily Express last week, “everything a...
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