I was asked to review the this novel by the publisher because I wrote a very favourable review here for Apple Tree Yard. My Husband’s Son be

For my 60th birthday I took my closest family — those who were able to travel abroad— away for the weekend. I wanted to visit the...

We get to know Evie as a young girl growing up in the 70s. The granddaughter of a TV star. Sharpened by cynicism and suffering from a...

I did enjoy Maggie O Farrell’s This Must Be The Place, but I’m not sure I agree with the reviewers who have said it is her best book yet....

Being totally unenamoured with mainstream television I am always on the lookout for entertainment in other areas. A short while ago I...

Mine is just another of a million different opinions that are out there at the moment, all over social media and in the press, but from...

Most years I love the winner of the Bailey’s. Not the drinking competition, I mean the novel that wins the literary prize. And not the...

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon is a lovely quirky novel, told predominantly through the eyes of a 10 year old girl,...

1 Palestinians have never had sovereignty over the land that is now Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel#Early_Israeli...

1. The threat of political union 2. The threat to the preservation of individual and small business rights Big business and banks are...

Fluoride What is it? A negatively charged chemical compound with a distinctive bitter taste, traces are naturally found in earth and...

Aluminium What is it? A silvery white metallic element found on the 3rd row and the 13th column of the periodic table Aluminium is...

Aspartame A non-calorific sweetener Also known as: Nutra Sweet, Sancta, Twinsweet, Equal, Candarel, E951, E962 First approved for use by...

Glyphosate Marketed as Roundup GMO weedkiller # 1 product for Monsanto worldwide sales of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. First...

On internet dating sites, the premise is very simple, post a picture of yourself, write a profile that says who you are, and what you...

1. The Artisan Gluten Free Bakery 2. Clearspring organic tamari soya sauce 3. Pasta & Pasta gluten free range 4. Be Free brown seeded...

The government’s reduction of funds and extra stress on junior doctors is just the tip of the iceberg. Looking at the bigger picture,...

Gemma says: I was a school registrar in London, aged 26, when diagnosed with cancer. That was 1996. Previously, in July 1992, I had had a...

Debra says: Homeopathy gave me life - the life of two new babies. Like lots of couples we had some fertility issues, one of which was...

Whilst in Goa, editing the novel I am currently working on, I read Golda, a biography of the late, great, Israeli prime minister Golda...