Month: March 2024

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 hardly a household name?

Tales of life and death, a sleep-deprived mother, and the return of Jack Reacher… here are our critics’ picks of the best new books to sink your teeth into this weekend.

Jonathan Haidt, an American academic, is worried that smart phones have changed the nature of childhood, making our kids depressed and reducing their ability to function in the real world.

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.

Enticingly readable debuts, haunting fantasy and paranormal page-turners, check out our critics’ picks of the best new books to read this weekend…

To those of a certain vintage, The Liver Birds (two words) was a classic sitcom. As we now discover from this sassy book, the Liverbirds (one word) were also Britain’s first female pop band.

To those of a certain vintage, The Liver Birds (two words) was a classic sitcom. As we now discover from this sassy book, the Liverbirds (one word) were also Britain’s first female pop band.

It’s said an attack on one member is an attack on all but a thought provoking new book questions whether we’d really put ourselves in the firing line to protect another…

During WW2, the men and women of Broad Street Post Office in Jersey were not forced to contend with faulty softwear and false accounting, but with a more dangerous foe – the Nazis.