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.Arguably, the most effective of Pauline Boty's paintings is Untitled (Sunflower Woman), writes Marc Kristal in his glorious biography of the British Pop Art icon.
Four children, 500 sheep, 20 chickens: no time! In her unflinchingly honest memoir, HELEN REBANKS says what it’s REALLY life to live on a farm…
Four children, 500 sheep, 50 cattle, 20 chickens, six sheepdogs and two ponies roam their Lake District farm. Her memoir is structured around a day...
WHAT BOOK would chef, author and television presenter Nadiya Hussain take to a desert island?
Nadiya Hussain has revealed that she's currently reading Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, where the main character is a chemist-turned-TV cook.
Guru. Salesman. Sex pest: The search for enlightenment led The Beatles to the Maharishi. But when their idol made a pass at Mia Farrow, disillusion set in
In a lively narrative, delivered with wit and warmth, Brown shows how Eastern mysticism went from being suspect to venerable, and back again to a subject of scepticism.
RETROS
This extraordinary, 30-year-old debut is a technically innovative and deeply moving study of a family of young sisters and the group of boys who tried, but failed, to understand them.
PSYCHOS
It's a shame this author has chosen to go by such a hard-to-remember version of her name, because her book is instantly memorable.
CONTEMPORARY
Izzy and Lucas both work front of house at a grand country hotel in the New Forest. Bitter rivals, they normally work alternate shifts...
LITERARY FICTION
Blakemore's second novel swaps the turmoil of the English Civil War -the backdrop to her prize-winning debut, The Manningtree Witches - for the convulsions of revolutionary France.
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Lucy is a New York-based writer whose second husband recently died. William, a scientist, is also alone...
‘Find out what people HATE and make them hate it MORE’: The ruinous reparations demanded of Germany after World War I led to hyperinflation – and the cynical exploitation by Hitler and Goebbels of the bitterness felt by ordinary people
Those 13 Weimar years had been politically chaotic, but they allowed a remarkable cultural and artistic freedom to flourish.