When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas
Long-term readers of The Telegraph will know that back in the day, I used to be a party girl. Every week I would write a column about the hedonistic experiences I’d recently had, and every week my inbox would fill with emails from readers beseeching me to settle down with a nice man. Well, be careful what you wish for, because here I am, settled down and shuddering in horror as I write the words “party girl” Not because I feel embarrassed about my youthful antics, but because today, covered in H
Jilly Cooper s habitual literary milieu is the upper crust world of the horsy set, but now, in her ninth decade, she has turned her gaze on a new world of WAGs for her latest novel, Tackle!