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An open marriage is always destined to end in recrimination and tears, I should know,
Try to imagine the scene. Your two young sons are asleep, you’ve had another day of being the perfect mum. You love your husband very much, and he loves you.Your sex life with him is excellent, even after ten years. In fact, it’s…
The brilliant double-agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day – and how the British had
CLASSIFIED! THE ADVENTURES OF A MOLEHUNTERBy Nigel West(Biteback Publishing£25, 384pp)Was the ultimate success of D-Day due, in large part, to a single man? A man whose real identity was unknown until the 1980s — and, even today, is…
Why smart phones are a form of child abuse: An author’s tips on how to stop YOUR teen
Daddy,’ said Jonathan Haidt’s six-year-old daughter one day, ‘Can you take the iPad away? I’m trying to take my eyes off it but I can’t.’When even our children realise that modern technology is causing them problems, you know it’s…
Novelist Lesley Pearse’s own turbulent story: She grew up in an orphanange, gave her son
Aspiring novelists are usually advised to ‘write about what you know’. When Lesley Pearse sat down to write her first novel, her problem wasn’t what to put in but how much of her turbulent life story to leave out.By the time she was in…
‘Girls don’t play guitars!’ … Lennon said, standing there in his pants: The…
MUSIC THE LIVERBIRDS By Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders (Faber £20, 305pp)To those of a certain vintage, The Liver Birds (two words) was a classic Carla Lane sitcom, broadcast throughout the Seventies. It starred Polly James and Nerys…
PETER HITCHENS: Would NATO really go to war with Russia – or is it one big bluff? A
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NatoBy Peter Apps(Wildfire £25, 624pp)During the freezing depths of the Cold War, 40 years ago, I pestered friends in Brussels to get me some Nato bumper stickers to put on my car. I wanted to…
First class heroism: Untold stories of the courageous World War Two postal workers who
Shutting the door to the empty canteen, he waited for the steam from the tea urn to soften the edges of the envelope.His heart hammering, he gently eased out the letter. Its treacherous contents dripped poison.It read: ‘I have good…
He seduced hundreds of women (as well as a few men) and had a child with his half sister
Their relationship was the talk of the town, both scandalising and thrilling 19th Century London. For months, the beautiful (and married) Lady Caroline Lamb and the celebrated Lord Byron had made no attempt to hide their passion for each…
Incredible story of how Himmler’s masseur – who was nicknamed the Magic Buddha and went
Kersten’s Lists: A Saviour In The Depths of Hell, by Francois Kersaudy (Headline £25, 416pp) On February 3, 1945, Heinrich Himmler’s enormous, bear-like masseur, Felix Kersten, sent his secretary Frau Wacker to Himmler’s headquarters…
The grim truth about ultra-processed food: DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN lays bare the
Normally, I wouldn’t have Coco Pops for breakfast. But they seemed a good choice when I embarked on a month-long scientific experiment.The idea was to make ultra-processed food (UPF) 80 per cent of my daily diet, and then see whether it…