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Dudley and Stephens had been taking the yacht Mignonette (pictured), along with Edmund Brooks and 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker, to Australia when it sank

New history of homicide shows killing’s not always an open and shut case

THE RATLINE by Philippe Sands (W&N £9.99, 432pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

NORTHERN SPY by Flynn Berry (W&N £16.99, 304 pp)

THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

MARIMEKKO by Laird Borrelli-Persson (Thames & Hudson £50)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

FEATHERWEIGHT by Mick Kitson (Canongate £14.99, 304 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

WORST. IDEA. EVER by Jane Fallon (Michael Joseph £12.99, 400 pp)

CONTEMPORARY | Daily Mail Online

THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE by Carol Shields (World Editions £11.99, 448 pp)

RETRO READS | Daily Mail Online

Sitting under an old tree at Douskos Taverna, Leonard Cohen is plucking at his guitar with a fair-haired woman’s head on his shoulder, a faraway look in her eyes, and it is this dreamy image which has helped to keep the Greek island of Hydra’s version of La Dolce Vita alive

Behind sun-kissed image of pop legend and his friends lay a much darker story

THE OUTLAWS SCARLETT & BROWNE by Jonathan Stroud (Walker £7.99, 400 pp)

TEEN & YOUNG ADULTS | Daily Mail Online

THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR by Jacqueline Winspear (Allison & Busby £19.99, 352 pp)

CLASSIC CRIME | Daily Mail Online

WHITE CITY by Kevin Power (Scribner £14.99, 464 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

Steven Lovatt who has been a bird-lover since childhood, has penned a book about the joy and hope represented by birdsong. Pictured: Goldfinch call

Author explores how nature provided hope throughout ‘the silence’ of 2020 in a fascinating new book

THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate £9.99, 912 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer have compiled letters written by Thom Gunn (pictured) for a biography that gives insight into the gay world of San Francisco before the Aids epidemic

Thom Gunn devoted himself to a life of hedonism…and horticulture

Serhii Plokhy who is a Harvard professor of history, has penned an account of how America and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war in October 1962. Pictured: Cuba’s Fidel Castro and (right) the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev

New book gives a thrillingly dramatic account of the Cuban missile crisis

Polly Samson (pictured) would take all seven volumes of Proust to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would novelist Polly Samson take to a desert island?

THE SUMMER JOB by Lizzy Dent (Viking £12.99, 384 pp)

CONTEMPORARY | Daily Mail Online

EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline (W&N £14.99, 320 pp)

GOTHIC FANTASY | Daily Mail Online

TALL BONES by Anna Bailey (Doubleday £12.99, 352 pp)

CRIME | Daily Mail Online

Paula Byrne has penned a biography about Barbara Pym (pictured), whose great novels include Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women as well as Jane And Prudence

Writer Barbara Pym’s brilliant novels were inspired by the often horrible men she was drawn to

Roger Morgan-Grenvill explores the lives of Manx shearwaters found on the island of Rum in Scotland, in a new nature book. Pictured: the Manxie

Fascinating account of the lives of Manx shearwaters in a nature book

Historian David Hargreave and his researcher Margaret-Louise O'Keeffe have collated first-hand testimonies from those who were in World War I for a new book

Shattering accounts of the Great War, from those left to grieve

Douglas Stuart (pictured) is currently reading Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan and would take Maria McCann's As Meat Loves Salt to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart take to a desert island?

Tracey Thorn (pictured with Max Porter) said she would take the complete works of Elizabeth Taylor or Anthony Powell's A Dance To The Music Of Time to a desert island with her

WHAT BOOK would singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn take to a desert island?

JUST LIKE YOU By Nick Hornby (Penguin £8.99, 320 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

CRAZY By Jane Feaver (Corsair £16.99, 320 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

With beautiful illustrations from Lucille Clerc, this captivating book traverses the globe via plants: nettles in England, mangoes in India and tulips in the Netherlands (pictured)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

THE WHISPERS By Heidi Perks (Century £12.99, 400 pp)

PSYCHO THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

THE DREAM WEAVERS By Barbara Erskine (HarperCollins £14.99, 512 pp)

HISTORICAL | Daily Mail Online

KING OF RABBITS By Karla Neblett (Heinemann £14.99, 336 pp)

DEBUTS | Daily Mail Online

THIS TOO SHALL PASS by Julia Samuel (Penguin Life £9.99, 368 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

MIRRORLAND by Carole Johnstone (Borough Press £12.99, 416pp)

THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

MY PHANTOMS by Gwendoline Riley (Granta £12.99, 208 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (Vintage £16.99, 256 pp)

SHORT STORIES | Daily Mail Online

POETRY REBELLION (Batsford £12.99) galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world

POETRY | Daily Mail Online

Thanks to Covid-19 shaking someone's hand seems an almost alien concept but Ella Al-Shamahi says that we are not seeing the death of the handshake (file photo)

Paleoanthropologist says handshakes are not a learned cultural behaviour but part of our DNA

Philip Roth died three years ago, aged 85, after a glittering but controversial career but was undoubtedly one of the heavyweights of the American novel

New biography reveals Philip Roth reveals was all sex and no heart

Maggie O'Farrell (pictured) is currently reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for the ninth time and said Moominland Midwinter first gave her reading bug when she was eight or nine

WHAT BOOK would author Maggie O’Farrell take to a desert island?

THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd (Tinder £8.99, 432pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

SPRING CANNOT BE CANCELLED by Martin Gayford and David Hockney (Thames and Hudson £25)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

A LONELY MAN by Chris Power (Faber £14.99, 320 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

MADAME BUROVA by Ruth Hogan (Two Roads £12.99, 304 pp)

POPULAR | Daily Mail Online

THE FINISHER by Peter Lovesey (Sphere £8.99, 368 pp)

CLASSIC CRIME | Daily Mail Online

What drove the Vikings' wanderlust?

What drove the Vikings' wanderlust?

THE DUCK WHO DIDN¿T LIKE WATER by Steve Small (S&S £12.99, 32 pp)

CHILDREN’S | Daily Mail Online

LITERARY FICTION

LITERARY FICTION

THE FINE ART OF INVISIBLE DETECTION by Robert Goddard (Bantam £18.99, 384 pp)

THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

THE TALK OF PRAM TOWN by Joanna Nadin (Mantle £16.99, 432 pp)

CONTEMPORARY | Daily Mail Online

Alex Christofi has penned a new biography exploring the life of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsk (pictured)

Russian novelist Dostoevsky faced a firing squad – but was reprieved as the soldiers took aim

Tom and David Chivers have penned an explanation of how to interpret numbers, as the number of statistics we're bombarded with has increased during the pandemic (file image)

Authors offer explanations for interpreting statics in fascinating science book

Jonathan Clements explores the history of Chinese food in a fascinating book, revealing the cuisine did not begin to spread abroad until the 19th century (file image)

Author reveals the fascinating history of how Chinese food became popular around the globe

Ian Lloyd who is a former member of the Royal press corps, has penned 100 chapters to mark Prince Philip's 100th birthday in June. Pictured:u00A0Prince Philip during his time in the Navy

Nothing could dampen Prince Philip’s zest for life – nor his unwavering service to his Queen

THE FAVOUR by Laura Vaughan (Corvus £14.99, 336 pp)

PSYCHO THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

THE ABSOLUTE BOOK by Elizabeth Knox (Michael Joseph £14.99, 640 pp)

FI/FANTASY | Daily Mail Online

LITERARY FICTION

LITERARY FICTION

Patricia Fara writes about the final 30 years of Isaac Newton's (pictured) life, when he gave up his fellowship and moved to London to live a much more public, political life

Isaac Newton was a scientific genius who saved the nation’s economy – but he also ruined careers

THE LAMPLIGHTERS by Emma Stonex (Picador £14.99, 368 pp)

DEBUTS | Daily Mail Online

Scientist Richard Fortey (pictured) has penned a memoir about his childhood, exploring how his obsession with the natural world began when he was a young boy

Scientist Richard Fortey pens memoir charting his ‘obsession’ with nature

Author Margaret Reynold (pictured with daughter Lucy) began her adoption journey when she was in her mid-40s, single and having experienced the early menopause

Author recounts her SEVEN YEAR journey to adopt a child

THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES by A K Blakemore (Granta £12.99, 304 pp)

HISTORICAL | Daily Mail Online

Stephen Bayley has penned a new book urging readers to search for what is truly valuable. Pictured: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

Author reveals how modern life has ruined our perception of what is ‘truly valuable’

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Romantics and Classics by Jeremy Musson selects 20 of the most beautiful country homes in England, featuring celebrated properties such as Sir Roy Strong's The Laskett (pictured)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

Robert Penn gives a deep dive into world of heritage baking in Slow Rise, as he grows his own wheat, harvests it by hand and mills it the old-fashioned way when he makes bread (stock photo)

Author offers a deep dive into the world of baking as he grows his own wheat

Brutal: Tobias Menzies (left) and Sam Heughan (right) as a Redcoat and a Highlander in TV drama Outlander, which is based on the Battle of Culloden

And you thought today’s Scottish politics was bloody! Never mind Sturgeon’s battles

Author and journalist Lionel Shriver (pictured) would take Moby-Dick by Herman Melville to a desert island while books about horses gave her the reading bug when she was younger

WHAT BOOK would author Lionel Shriver take to a desert island?

Nicky Campbell reveals how his Labrador helped him to recover from a breakdown in a memoir. Pictured: Nicky Campbell with his pet Maxwell

Nicky Campbell describes how he was saved… by his dog

Dorothy Soames (pictured) was abandoned at London's Foundling Hospital as a baby and had a childhood where physical punishment was common and was 'bereft of love and tenderness'

Author discovers her parent’s tragic early life at London’s Foundling Hospital

Comedian and author David Baddiel (pictured) is currently reading The Last Trial by Scott Turow would take Updike's four Rabbit books to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would author David Baddiel take to a desert island?

Emilio Pucci's eponymous fashion house is famous for its bold and colourful prints, including styles such as these palazzo pyjamas (pictured) from the Fall/Winter 1969 collection

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Picador £8.99, 336 pp

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

The journalist Colin Mackenzie found Ronnie Biggs, (pictured in Rio) the escaped Great Train Robber, in 1974

Colin Mackenzie’s new memoir tells the story of his journalism career

Desmond Shawe-Taylor bought an old rectory in Dorset for £7,500 in 1945. He was joined by his friends Eddy Sackville-West and art dealer Eardley Knollys (pictured together)

In an age when being gay was illegal, four literary men set up house in Dorset

Philip Serrell's (pictured) memoir reveals how he ended up in auctioneering and the bustle of the saleroom, which he describes as 'a theatre of drama with an ever-changing cast of actors'

TV auctioneer Philip Serrell reveals his cut-throat business in a memoir

FANFARE FOR TIN TRUMPETS by Margery Sharp (Dean Street £10.99, 222 pp)

RETRO READS | Daily Mail Online

Matt Haig (pictured) is currently reading, and not for the first time, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamot, while the writer would take Walden by Henry David Thoreau to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would writer Matt Haig take to a desert island?

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Tinder £8.99, 480 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh by Martin Bailey (Batsford £16.99)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

Jonathan Bate has penned a biography revealing how similar John Keats (pictured) and F. Scott Fitzgerald were

F Scott Fitzgerald and his hero Keats were tormented by fears that size really does matter

Dr Bruce Greyson spoke with dozens of people who had a near-death experience and provides the accounts in his new book After (stock image)

Psychiatrist studies near-death accounts and says they make you happier

Dear Friend And Gardener is a collection of letters between Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto (both pictured) that show how close their bond was despite being 'chalk and cheese'

Letters between Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto reveal their close bond

A TOWN CALLED SOLACE by Mary Lawson (Chatto £14.99, 304 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry (Faber £8.99, 320 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Author Francis Spufford (pictured) is currently reading Hermione Lee's biography of Tom Stoppard

WHAT BOOK would author Francis Spufford take to a desert island?

Her Majesty by Christopher Warwick provides a fascinating photographic history of the Queen's long and remarkable life

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

Infectious disease has always been with us and arguably always will be. Charles Kenny's book is a lively survey of our millennia-long struggle to defeat it (file image)

Charles Kenny details a history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease

The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell (pictured) describes how women decide whether or not to have children

The fretful woman’s fertile years

Eliot Higgins, 42, (pictured) was a college dropout with no specialist training as a techie but ended up revealing the details of the Novichok poisonings

Geek who exposed Novichok killers

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father disinherited her when she married Robert Browning. The play The Barretts Of Wimpole Street (pictured here in the film version) depicts their love story

How do I love thee… passionately!

ALEXANDRIA by Paul Kingsnorth (Faber £16.99, 416 pp)

DYSTOPIAN | Daily Mail Online

INSATIABLE by Daisy Buchanan (Sphere £12.99, 352 pp)

CONTEMPORARY | Daily Mail Online

THE SANATORIUM by Sarah Pearse (Bantam £12.99, 400 pp)

THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

TEN DAYS by Austin Duffy (Granta £12.99, 272 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

Irish writer Marian Keyes (pictured) would take The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would writer Marian Keyes take to a desert island?

Damon Centola has penned a book about how change works and why it often fails. Pictured: Demonstration of Google Glass

Author explores how change happens and why it often fails

Juliet Nicolson explores how the Great British Freeze of 1962-3 kick-started the modern era in a new book. Pictured: A milkman doing his deliveries on skis in London, 1962

During the bitter winter of 1962-63, the sea turned to ice, milkmen froze in their floats

THE GODMOTHERS by Monica McInerney (Welbeck £12.99, 400 pp)

POPULAR | Daily Mail Online

LIGHT PERPETUAL by Francis Spufford (Faber £16.99, 336 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

Children's author Francesca Simon (pictured) would take The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would children’s author Francesca Simon take to a desert island?

Carol Dyhouse takes a look at the social history surrounding different fairy tales. Pictured is Frozen which was released in 2013

The truth about Prince charming

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