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Books

The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan

“Most people can name the great leaders and major battles of the past,” writes the Oxford historian Peter Frankopan. “But few can name the biggest...

Paul Smith
19 March 202319 March 2023
Books

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith

“Ageing is not the same for women as it is for men,” said Ellen Pasternack in The New Statesman. Whereas men might fear frailty and...

Paul Smith
15 March 202315 March 2023
Books

River of the Gods by Candice Millard

“The Romans had an expression to describe an outrageously impossible task,” Facilius sit Nili caput invenire: it would be easier to find the source of...

Paul Smith
20 February 202320 February 2023
Books

Tough Guy by Richard Bradford

Norman Mailer, the subject of Richard Bradford’s “lively” biography, was “everything we have learnt to despise in the 21st century”, Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents...

Paul Smith
4 February 20234 February 2023
Books

Spare by Prince Harry

“You might feel as if you’ve already read Prince Harry’s memoir,” But when you read it from cover to cover, Spare proves to be much...

Paul Smith
24 January 202324 January 2023
Books

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis

“It began, probably, in a cave,” “In the sweltering August of 1919”, a 30-year-old bank clerk named Thomas Stearns Eliot – on a walking holiday...

Paul Smith
17 January 202317 January 2023
Crime

JUSTICE AT LAST FOR RENEE AND ANDREW

ONE OF Scotland’s biggest mysteries has finally been solved with the conviction of William MacDowell for the murder of his secret lover Renee MacRae and...

Paul Smith
15 December 202215 December 2022
Crime

LIFE BEHIND BARS FOR POSSESSIVE GIRLFRIEND-KILLER

A POSSESSIVE boyfriend, who murdered his Canadian girlfriend after seeing her look at a picture of a naked woman on her phone, has been jailed...

Paul Smith
15 December 202215 December 2022
Crime

BUNGLING SON WROTE CHECKLIST FOR MUM AND DAD’S MURDER

Roger Severs had spent his whole life being supported by his parents. When they finally said no to him he knuckled down – and planned...

Paul Smith
6 December 20226 December 2022
Books

Cannibal Capitalism by Nancy Fraser

In her new book, Cannibal Capitalism, Nancy Fraser offers an expansive history of capitalism, proceeding from mercantilism and 19th-century theories of laissez-faire to 20th-century state-organized...

Paul Smith
1 December 20221 December 2022
Crime

LIFE IN JAIL FOR TEEN’S BRUTAL KNIFE-KILLER

A SHEFFIELD killer who stabbed and strangled his friend to death after she rejected his sexual advances has been jailed for life. Halefom Weldeyohannes, 26,...

Paul Smith
29 November 202229 November 2022
Books

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Fans of Haruki Murakami are “highly unlikely” ever to have the opportunity to “corner him at a book-signing session”, the author of Norwegian Wood and...

Paul Smith
26 November 202226 November 2022
Books

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell

“Katherine Rundell is a scholar, a fabulous writer and a born enthusiast,” said Matthew Reisz in The Observer. Earlier this year, she published an acclaimed...

Paul Smith
12 November 202212 November 2022
Books

American Midnight: by Adam Hochschild

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis It can be too easy to forget the dark periods that our republic has survived...

Paul Smith
3 November 20223 November 2022
Books

Abyss by Max Hastings

The “heart-stopping story” of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been “told many times before”, said Saul David in The Daily Telegraph. But never has it...

Paul Smith
23 October 202227 November 2022
Books

Three Times a Countess by Tina Gaudoin

Raine Spencer is chiefly remembered as “Princess Diana’s ‘wicked stepmother’”, said Marcus Berkmann in the Daily Mail. In the 1980s, she became a “tabloid hate...

Paul Smith
15 October 202227 November 2022
Crime

SEX AT THE SEASIDE …But Fred Paid A High Price

It should have been one of the happiest nights of Fred Gill’s life. Nellie Rickaby, the girl he was courting, at last allowed him to...

Paul Smith
28 September 202228 September 2022
Crime

Ascot Shocker : HORROR AT HOLLY COTTAGES

A phone call from a “Mr. Farnsworth” to a hardware shop in Slough asked for 56lbs of nails to be delivered to two desolate cottages...

Paul Smith
15 September 202219 November 2022
Books

Henry Marsh

Like many doctors, Henry Marsh had come to believe that serious illness was something that “only happened to patients”, As a result, the neurosurgeon spent...

Paul Smith
10 September 202210 September 2022
Books

The Price of Immortality by Peter Ward

The idea that humans can live for ever has long been central to religion, But increasingly, it “has other devotees”. Progress in the nascent science...

Paul Smith
3 September 20223 September 2022
Crime

Gun violence: a shocking week for Liverpool

“Disbelief, despair and pure, unadulterated anger.” That was the mood in Liverpool last week, when the city learnt that a nine-year-old girl had been shot...

Paul Smith
2 September 202217 November 2022
Books

Inventor of the Future: by Alec Nevala-Lee

Buckminster Fuller, the architect, inventor, and futurist, “could come across as almost a secular saint,” In the hours-long talks he gave around the world after...

Paul Smith
26 August 202226 August 2022
Crime

Hollywood Stalker… London Shooter

ANTHONY FLETCHER was having a hard time. A 33-year-old former Grenadier Guardsman, he was finding work difficult to get as a Wimbledon building contractor. The...

Paul Smith
24 August 202224 August 2022
Books

Tourists : by Lucy Lethbridge

“Travel for pleasure was once the preserve of young aristocrats taking the Grand Tour,” But in the early 19th century, a crucial change took place:...

Paul Smith
19 August 202227 November 2022
Books

Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison

Roald Dahl is “very easy to cast as a villain”,He was arrogant and overbearing, a “distant and wayward husband”, and an “unforgivable anti- Semite”. Yet...

Paul Smith
15 August 202215 August 2022
Crime

Twenty years on : Holly and Jessica

It's been 20 years since the quiet town of Sohamin Cambridgeshire was rocked by the horrific deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The bodies...

Paul Smith
14 August 202214 August 2022
Crime

ANOTHER BRAVE PASSER-BY SHOT DEAD

Three masked men had raided a jeweller’s in Charlotte Street in London’s West End. They had beaten the shop owner about the head with a...

Paul Smith
14 August 202214 August 2022
Crime

Doctor shock And The Grudge That Turned To Murder

It started as a simple case of an ingrowing toenail. It ended with four men involved in a doorstep killing… IT’S A nuisance. It’s just...

Paul Smith
10 August 202210 August 2022
Crime

SPACEY PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ASSAULTS

Hollywoodstar Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty to historic sexual assault charges. The 62-year-old actor appeared at London's Old Bailey to enter the plea, which...

Paul Smith
10 August 202210 August 2022
Books

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber by Sean O’Driscoll

“On the evening of 26 April 1974, four thieves armed with AK-47s broke into Russborough House in County Wicklow, the vast Palladian pile belonging to...

Paul Smith
8 August 20227 December 2022

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