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The Fall Of Robespierre: 24 Hours In Revolutionary Paris explores how the architect of French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre — the country’s most feared leader — ended with his neck on the guillotine

Off with his head! How the architect of the French Revolution ended with his own neck on the block

Joe Shute documents how the blurring of seasons is affecting the British countryside in a new book (file image)

Weather watcher reveals how the blurring of seasons is affecting nature

LITERARY FICTION

LITERARY FICTION

THE MURDER BOX by Olivia Kiernan (Riverrun £14.99, 336 pp)

CRIME | Daily Mail Online

YOURS CHEERFULLY by A J Pearce (Picador £14.99, 340 pp)

POPULAR | Daily Mail Online

NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE by Claire North (Orbit £18.99, 416 pp)

SCI-FI/ FANTASY | Daily Mail Online

BEETHOVEN by Laura Tunbridge (Penguin £9.99, 288 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD CATWALK (by Alexander Fury with Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler (Thames & Hudson £55) Pictured: Kate Moss

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD CATWALK (by Alexander Fury with Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler (Thames & Hudson £55) Pictured: Kate Moss

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

BEETHOVEN by Laura Tunbridge (Penguin £9.99, 288 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Author Santa Montefiore (pictured) would take Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would author Santa Montefiore take to a desert island?

Nothing I Wouldn’t Do by Sara-Ella Ozbek (S&S £8.99, 384 pp)

CONTEMPORARY | Daily Mail Online

AFRAID OF THE LIGHT by Douglas Kennedy (Hutchinson £13.99, 352 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by Shelley Parker-Chan (Mantle £16.99, 416 pp)

HISTORICAL | Daily Mail Online

STRICTLY MURDER by Julie Wassmer (Little Brown £8.99, 336 pp)

CLASSIC CRIME | Daily Mail Online

Adam Andrusier, who has been collecting autographs since age ten, has penned a book about his life. Pictured: Liz Taylor

How an obsessive hobby taught a young autograph collector all about tenacity

Tessa Boase has penned a book about Etta Lemon (pictured), who was one of the great heroines of British nature conservation

How Etta saved the birds from the ‘murderous millinery’ trend sweeping London throughout 1891

Andrew Nahum has penned a new book exploring how guns have shaped our societies in often surprising ways (file image)

How guns for peace backfired! Author explores the stories behind the innovators of modern weapons

W. Sydney Robinson has penned a fascinating new biography about Sir Arthur Bryant (pictured), based on the newly discovered papers written by Pamela Street

Author gives a glimpse into the life of Sir Arthur Bryant using newly discovered letters

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

Brilliant summer reads chosen by our fiction reviewers

Glossy: The Inside Story Of Vogue by Nina-Sophia Miralles (Quercus £20, 352 pp)

ROGER ALTON picks the best titles to be seen with on holiday

THE DUCK WHO DIDN¿T LIKE WATER by Steve Small

Books to get your paws on this summer! Sally Morris chooses the most fun reads for kids

James Patterson (pictured) is currently reading We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker

WHAT BOOK would thriller writer James Patterson take to a desert island?

BEETHOVEN by Laura Tunbridge (Penguin £9.99, 288 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD CATWALK (by Alexander Fury with Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler (Thames & Hudson £55) Pictured: Kate Moss

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

AFRAID OF THE LIGHT by Douglas Kennedy (Hutchinson £13.99, 352 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

Melanie Blake says 'the knives are out' after angry celebs have been blowing up her inbox as the nation tries to guess who the sexed-up characters in her new work are

Melanie Blake says angry celebs are blowing up her inbox

DREAM GIRL by Laura Lippman (Faber £14.99, 320 pp)

CHILLERS | Daily Mail Online

YOURS CHEERFULLY by A J Pearce (Picador £14.99, 340 pp)

POPULAR | Daily Mail Online

OTHER PEOPLE¿S CLOTHES by Calla Henkel (Sceptre £14.99, 320 pp)

DEBUTS | Daily Mail Online

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD CATWALK (by Alexander Fury with Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler (Thames & Hudson £55) Pictured: Kate Moss

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

LITERARY FICTION

LITERARY FICTION

THE PRESIDENT¿S DAUGHTER by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Century £20, 608 pp)

THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

FILTHY ANIMALS by Taylor Brandon (Daunt Books £9.99, 272 pp)

SHORT STORIES | Daily Mail Online

NEVER GROW UP Illustrated by Quentin Blake (Puffin £12.99, 32 pp)

PICTURE BOOKS | Daily Mail Online

THE WEEKEND by Charlotte Wood (W&N £8.99, 288 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Curtis Sittenfeld (pictured) is currently reading Black Is The Body by Emily Bernard.

WHAT BOOK would author Curtis Sittenfeld take to a desert island?

MARILYN AND ME by Lawrence Schiller (Taschen £50)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

ACTRESS by Anne Enright (Vintage £8.99, 272 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Tim Richardson has penned a book about Britain's leading garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith. Pictured: Tom Stuart-Smith at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2008

Britain’s go-to gardener for royals and the REALLY rich

Julia Carter has created a book of essays featuring six great writers and artists of the early 20th century. Pictured: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald with daughter Scottie

Writers of the early 20th Century who found solace in the South of France

Jessie Ware, 36, (pictured right) who lives in South London, stories from her life in a charming and funny new memoir

Jessie Ware shares touching life stories in a charming new memoir

Josh Ireland has penned a book exploring how the relationship Randolph had with his father Winston Churchill shaped his entire life. Pictured: Winston Churchill at home with Randolph and daughter Diana

Churchill so doted on his son Randolph that he turned into a brat who once urinated on Lloyd George

MRS ENGLAND by Stacey Halls (Manilla Press £14.99, 400pp)

HISTORICAL | Daily Mail Online

TWO WOMEN IN ROME by Elizabeth Buchan (Corvus £14.99, 368pp)

POPULAR | Daily Mail Online

DEAD GROUND by M. W. Craven (Constable £16.99, 448pp)

CRIME | Daily Mail Online

MOTHER: A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER EARTH by Marsel van Oosten (teNeues £50)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

Victoria Hislop (pictured) is currently reading Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

WHAT BOOK would author Victoria Hislop take to a desert island?

William Poundstone has penned an intriguing book about the most common questions asked in job interviews. Pictured: Albert Einstein

Author reveals common questions asked in job interviews

THE GOVERNESS by Wendy Holden (Welbeck £8.99, 400 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Bella Bathurst,who lives in a cottage on 180-acre Rise Farm in Wales, has penned a book about farmers (file image)

Our demand for £4 chickens and milk at 40p a pint is driving small farmers to despair and ruin

BARBARA HEPWORTH: ART & LIFE by Eleanor Clayton (Thames & Hudson £25)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY by Matthew Oates (Bloomsbury £12.99, 416 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Hilary McKay (pictured) is currently reading a new children's book from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, called Julia And The Shark

WHAT BOOK would Hilary McKay take to a desert island?

Anya Hindmarch, 52, (pictured) shares her advice for running a successful business and being happy in a memoir

Anya Hindmarch reveals her top tips for business and happiness in a fascinating memoir

David Storey's (pictured) family have selected and edited memoirs from material left after his death in 2017

Playwright David Storey memoirs reveal the trauma of a man: Too clever to be happy

Academic Roland Ennos has written a detailed and quirky portrait of our debt to the trees (file image)

Remembering the wood old days! Author says we need ‘small-scale circular economies’

Julian Sancton has penned an epic book about Adrien de Gerlache's scientific expedition to the Antarctic in 1897. Pictured: Adrien de Gerlache with an emperor penguin

Fourteen years before the South Pole was conquered, a Belgian ship set off for the end of the Earth

THE MISSING SISTER by Lucinda Riley (Macmillan £20, 816 pp)

POPULAR | Daily Mail Online

THE SERIAL KILLER’S WIFE by Alice Hunter (Avon £7.99, 384 pp)

THRILLERS | Daily Mail Online

THE SWALLOWS’ FLIGHT by Hilary McKay (Macmillan £12.99, 304 pp)

CHILDREN’S | Daily Mail Online

TOKYO REDUX by David Peace (Faber £16.99, 480 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

Michael Blencowe investigates 11 species that have gone extinct in a new nature book - including The great auk (pictured) which was native to the British Isles

Some wild creatures were too tasty to survive, but the result is a real feast

John Paul Minda who is a professor of psychology at a Canadian university, has penned a wide-ranging book on the workings of the mind (file image)

Psychology professor explores the workings of the human mind in a fascinating new tome

Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw have penned a book investigating the kidnapping of 276 girls from Chibok Government Secondary School for girls in 2014. Pictured: Islamist group Boko Haram fighter at an undisclosed location standing in front of the girls

Abducted from school by terrorists, their kidnap made headlines: why haven’t they been rescued?

THE IPCRESS FILE by Len Deighton (Penguin £9.99, 256 pp)

CLASSIC CRIME | Daily Mail Online

THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Nathan Morley has penned a new biography about English actor David Tomlinson. Pictured: David Tomlinson with his co-stars in Mary Poppins

David ‘Mr Banks’ Tomlinson took his medicine, landed a part in Mary Poppins – and made a fortune

BRITAIN AT WAR IN COLOUR by Ian Carter (Imperial War Museum £25)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

Kate Lebo from the U.S, has penned a new book about difficult to grow and challenging to cook fruit. Pictured: Durian

Juicy tales of the world’s smelliest fruit!

Starting in 2016 with hairdryers, Tupperware and sticky tape, Richard Browning, the British inventor of a 'jet suit', was determined to reach for the stars

Richard Browning was determined to reach for the stars now he’s flying high with billionaire backing

Sophie Hannah (pictured) is currently reading The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. The novelist and poet said she would takeCollected Poems by C.H. Sisson to a desert island

WHAT BOOK would poet and novelist Sophie Hannah take to a desert island?

In the silence of lockdown, many Brits will have enjoyed their first encounter with what folk singer Sam Lee describes as the little bird's 'language of enchantment' (file image)

The little bird with very large songbook: A delightful miscellany of nightingale fact and fiction

HOLD STILL (National Portrait Gallery £24.95)

PICTURE THIS | Daily Mail Online

THE GOLDEN RULE by Amanda Craig (Abacus £8.99, 400 pp)

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

Monica Lavers who spent three years working in the world's most famous Army regiment, has penned a book about her experience. Pictured: Special forces securing perimeter during armed conflict

Woman who spent three years working in the world’s most famous Army regiment

Tom Bradby (pictured) is currently reading True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

WHAT BOOK would journalist and novelist Tom Bradby take to a desert island?

Tom Moorhouse who is a researcher at Oxford University's zoology department, has penned a book about voles (pictured)

The water vole are as vicious as they are cunning. They’re also in danger of vanishing for ever

Helen Carr has penned an absorbing new biography about John of Gaunt (pictured) who was the son of king Edward III and the father of Henry IV

Was Bard’s patriot Prince really a butcher’s boy? Author examines John of Gaunt’s life

Edward White explores the influences behind Alfred Hitchcock's (pictured) 53 blockbusters in a new biography about the film director

The reason Alfred Hitchcock knew how to terrify was that he himself was scared of almost EVERYTHING

CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker £16.99, 256 pp)

LITERARY FICTION | Daily Mail Online

Robert Martineau and Jake Tyler have penned books about how walking helped when they were battling depression (file image)

Authors share their personal accounts of curing depression by putting one foot in front of the other

William Palmer has penned a book about notable writers who drank alcohol heavily. Pictured: Graham Greene

Booze made Dylan Thomas bark like a dog and left Kingsley Amis barely able to walk

Historian Ruth Scurr has penned an original account of the life of Napoleone di Buonaparte (pictured) who was born on the island of Corsica in 1769

Historian reveals Napoleon was a man who loved nature

David Baldacci (pictured) is currently reading Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

WHAT BOOK would novelist David Baldacci take to a desert island?

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

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