fiction

Dame Esther Rantzen

Dame Esther Rantzen on the books she loves

With unexpected time on her hands due to the lockdown Dame Esther Rantzen is indulging in a ‘book-fest’.

The broadcaster and charity campaigner has re-organised her library – she’s given away hundreds of books – and is enjoying leisurely reading sessions at her home in the New Forest, Hampshire.

“I decided it was the perfect time to scale down my library and re-organise it....

Good reads in lockdown

Five new books to read in lockdown

Patrick Ness returns with a powerful story of a world that has dragons in it, and retired Met Police chief superintendent John Sutherland shares what he’s learned.

Fiction

1. Looking For Eliza by Leaf Arbuthnot is published in hardback by Trapeze, priced £14.99 (ebook £7.99). Available now

It’s often hard to consider a book on its own merit when it’s potentially ‘...