In Kathy Reichs’s fifth novel, the setting shifts from the familiar American and Canadian soil to a Guatemalan village, the site of a political massacre during that country’s bloody civil war that took the lives of thousands between 1962 and 1996. An international
What a great idea. Get real women (2400 of them) to test beauty products, report back on them and publish the details of the ones that work. Beauty and health editors Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey got 240 panels of ten women
Cindy and Jack meet at a party. Good looking, successful and carefree, they fall in love and survive all the usual tests of a relationship including his ex-wife, a cross-country move. But suddenly Cindy is diagnosed with a terminal illness, placing her on
Before Nantucket became the tourist mecca of rich mansions and designer shops we know today, whaling was its main business. In 1819, with whale oil prices climbing, this small island village more than twenty miles out into the Atlantic was on
British organic and Fairtrade food chain Fresh and Wild teamed up with organic expert Ysanne Spevack, editor of online organic food magazine organicfood.co.uk, to produce this cookbook. It’s both worthy and worthwhile, but sometimes Spevack’s
I have to begin by pinning my colours to the mast: I am a big fan of Frida Kahlo’s art, I am fascinated by the story of her life and I loved the 2003 biopic starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina. Not surprisingly then I approached this
Hermann Hesse was a German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He is most famous for his novels Steppenwolf and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game). Gertrude is I believe a lesser lauded and read novel, it is none
Harriet Turner works in the family business, a travel company specializing in themed tours. The business, set up by her parents, is based in a small coastal town in Australia and is now run by Harriet’s brother James and his wife Melissa. Harriet has had
Gigi and The Cat are two novellas from the French novelist Colette. Gigi is a 15 year old girl born into a family of what were high class Parisian courtesans (“We never marry in our family”). She is looked after by her grandmother
I’ve been a fan of Nigella’s writing since Nigel Slater (my other favourite cookery writer) gave his readers a tip-off about her first cookery book How To Eat. In fact, How To Eat was so beloved in our house that both I and
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