News about Donna Tartt

When it comes to seasonal aesthetics, there's something distinctly gothic about autumn. A lot of that is of course down to Halloween , but there's also the darker evenings, constant grey weather, and smell of smoke that hangs around bonfire night.

Her Majesty delivered a speech to mark the third anniversary of her book club, The Queen's Reading Room, as well as its first as a registered charity, that recommends reading for at least five minutes a day for vital brain health and mental stability. Right: Pictured with Harlan Coben, Donna Tartt, Queen Camilla, Helena Bonham Carter and Dame Joanna Lumley

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TONY RENNELL discusses the year's best history books, including Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn And The Marriage That Shook Europe and Rory Carroll's Killing Thatcher. Bel Mooney selects the best art books of the year, while Mark Mason and Sara Lawrence have compiled a superb range of stocking fillers.

Ava Glass, a UK-based author, shares which book she would take to a desert island and the one that first gave her the reading bug.

Naoise Doland, an Irish writer, says she's currently reading Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, and that David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest will take her to a desert island. 'I loved certain parts of it a lot more than others,' she said. I will use the bad bits to spruce my blood and save the good bits to read,' explains the author.'