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The best new books to read this weekend: Our critics give their verdict on everything
From the haunting case of a retired policeman grappling with the past to a thrilling psychological debut, check out our critics' picks of the best new books to read this weekend. MUST READS JANE SHILLING Dancing With The Red Devil…
The ‘lunatic effect’ is real! Tonight’s full moon is likely to mean a rise in odd
The Moon is not made of cheese, though you probably suspected that already. Instead, says astronaut Buzz Aldrin who should know, it is mostly composed of greyish dust that smells of extinguished fireworks and makes your eyes water.This…
Thomas Hardy may have been lauded for his ‘complete understanding of a woman’s…
About ten years ago the experimental novelist Tom McCarthy gave an interview in which he mocked Thomas Hardy, author of Victorian classics Far From The Madding Crowd and Jude The Obscure, as sentimental claptrap: ‘Wessex, country fairs…
THE MAIL’S GREATEST BOOKS: Confessions of the ‘Canoe wife’: Anne Darwin reveals…
Anne Darwin shocked the nation when she helped her husband fake his death so they could cash in on his life insurance. She told all in her book published in 2016. Here, in the final part of our fascinating series, she describes the…
THE MAIL’S GREATEST BOOKS: Confessions of the ‘Canoe wife’ Anne Darwin: A knock on…
She shocked the world by helping her husband fake his death in a canoe in order to cash in his life insurance. In an extraordinary book published in 2016, Anne Darwin revealed all. Here, she tells how she and her husband made a…
THE MAIL’S GREATEST BOOKS: Confessions of the ‘Canoe wife’ Anne Darwin: A…
She shocked the world by helping her husband fake his death in a canoe to cash in his life insurance. In an extraordinary book first published in 2016, Anne Darwin revealed all. In a previous article, she told how she lied to her…
Hijacker who jumped out of a plane in 1972 with $200,000 – and was never seen again
It seems hard to imagine now, but in the 1960s and 1970s, huge numbers of scheduled airflights were hijacked, most of them by lone nutters armed to the teeth.It was, literally, a different age. Internal flights in the U.S. were…
The best new books to read this weekend: Our critics give their verdict on everything
From a crackling political thriller about Russian espionage to tales of life in the Jim Crow era of the American South, check out our critics' picks of the best new books to read this weekend. THRILLERS GEOFFREY WANSELL Anna OBy Matthew…
Antics of my war hero aunts
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Were there only SIX Wonders of the World? Historian Bettany Hughes explores the continued
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient Worldby Bettany Hughes (W&N £25, 416pp)Aproto-science fiction story by the 2nd century AD Greek writer Lucian of Samosata has its hero travelling to the Moon. Looking down, he can recognise the Earth…