Katharine Spurrier
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- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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It's official...the less you read the stupider you'll be (opens the original)
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What do David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Iggy Pop all have in common? They were voracious readers. Bowie never threw a book away. McCartney cited Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen as inspirations. Pop wrote an essay on Edward Gibbon’s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. The past’s most popular music has its origins in literature. In his thoughtful and forceful book, James Marriott tackles the death of literacy debate. Journalist Marriott is a well-placed advocate for the printed word;
Sex, robots and golf carts... these are the cities of the future (opens the original)
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One morning in June 2007, an Iraqi doctor and an engineer from Saudi Arabia drove a Jeep loaded with propane gas through the glass doors of Glasgow Airport’s departure lounge and straight into a huge concrete pillar . . . Halted but undeterred, one threw petrol bombs into the crowd while the other doused himself in fuel and set it alight. But the pillar’s delay allowed both the police and the public to react. This ‘unremarkable intervention that cost almost nothing to make’ meant that only five
Come on in, the water's FREEZING! (opens the original)
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We’ve all been there. You roll off the sun lounger, dip a toe in the pool, then a foot, then a leg, and as your stomach slides in… a gasp in case onlookers hadn’t clocked that the water is really cold. Invariably followed by a cocky, ‘it’s fine once you’re in’. But what would you do if your pool was not 20 degrees, but below four? In this fantastic book about the power of really cold water, Chris Ballard finds out. The Scandinavians have always known about the benefits of hot and cold therapy –
The 22 best non-fiction books to read this summer (opens the original)
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How Not To Be A Political Wife is available now from the Mail Bookshop If you think political memoirs are just full of boring policy and unwanted excuses, think again. In this rip-roaring account, Sarah Vine, star journalist and ex-wife of Michael Gove, reveals what life is like as a Westminster WAG and what really happened in her fall-out with best friend Samantha Cameron. Come to glory in political scandal; stay to discover the woman who survived it all. KS Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to th
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