CRAIG BROWN: I blame Michael Fish, the weatherman. In 1987, he poked fun at the idea that a hurricane was on its way. A few hours later, winds of up to 120 miles per hour hit Britain. ...read
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Sharks have feelings too, Mr Spielberg: CRAIG BROWN has more furious letters from wild animals
Ever since Spielberg’s hurtful and derogatory propaganda film Jaws (1975), sharks like myself have been treated as pariahs. For instance, whenever we pop our heads out of the water to welcome swimmers, they just scream with horror and make a rush for the beach. Over the years, we have engaged some of the world’s biggest public relations companies to emphasise our warm and friendly characters and athletic prowess. But the public just doesn’t want to know. ...read
CRAIG BROWN: The jellyfish are throwing a wobbly and we're stung by Attenborough's outrageous slurs, say wildlife
CRAIG BROWN pens letters from disgruntled members of the wildlife kingdom - from the unfair portrayal of crocodiles as violent in Planet Earth to vain gorillas wanted to get a better camera angle. ...read
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NEW FICTION
- MUST READS There was a crash, Miles's life was saved by prompt medical treatment, but he had suffered a catastrophic brain injury. He would regain consciousness, but never recover.
- CHICK LIT I have been a huge fan of Fallon's since reading her 2006 debut. What makes her books so compulsively readable is that she avoids the hearts and flowers cliches of this genre.
- HISTORICAL It's 1936: The Nazis occupy the Rhineland, Stalin's Great Terror is under way, Spain is divided by civil war and, besotted by Mrs Simpson, Edward VIII threatens to abdicate.
- CRIME One of the most assured crime debuts I've encountered is from this British-born, Australia-based journalist. It grips like a vice from first paragraph to last.
- LITERARY FICTION Mainly, the novel is a hymn to language, something that, as Ottoman bureaucrats intent on obliterating it instinctively know, and as Kadare's novels prove, is not easily silenced.
- POPULAR FICTION Kate Hogan's touching, funny and romantic debut is that rare and precious thing, a real story with brilliant characters.
- SPORTS Fowler is a one-off, a wag and a wit who went on to become a successful one-to-one coach at Durham University.