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
Between 1845 and 1850, more than a million Irish people starved to death. Another half-million were evicted from their homes during the potato blight, and a further million-and-a-half emigrated to America, Britain and Australia. The Naming of Eliza
Irish directors such as Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan are feted and celebrated world-wide. But Brian Desmond Hurst, Ireland’s most prolific film director, has been all but forgotten. A flamboyant bon viveur and
Like journalists, photographers are chroniclers of our time, cataloguing events with images and words, capturing moments that would otherwise be lost in time. We’ve all seen this sort of book before, representing the brand of Irish shamrock and
This novel is essentially about “ending up”, in particular the winter years of the inhabitants of Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage. The Cottage is a gloomy isolated house occupied by a bunch of oldies thrown together by fate and a lack of options. Bernard –
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