Book of the Month: One Day
David Nicholls
From the writer of Starter for Ten and TV's Cold Feet comes this captivating story of a bittersweet relationship between Emma and Dexter, a mismatched couple who get together for the first time on their final night at university. Over the next two decades, on the anniversary of their first meeting, we catch up with their evolving lives as they muddle their way towards some kind of happiness. Funny, sad and perceptive.read
Book of the Week: The Men Who Made Hollywood
Michael Freedland
In 1913 a young film director, Cecil B DeMille, decided to travel to the end of the line to an obscure station called Hollywood when bad weather prevented him from shooting his latest movie in Arizona. The rest, as they say, is history. And what a fantastically entertaining history it is, as Michael Freedland amply demonstrates in these bright and breezy sketches of the outsize personalities who created the modern film industry. read
