Books
Book reviews: Early shopping ideas
November 14th 2008
Lydia Bennet's Story, by Jane Odiwe; Knitting Goes Large, by Sharon Brant; Spirit of the Dolomites, by Valery Collins; Sneaky Parenting, by Jo Wiltshire; Hertfordshire: The Glorious County, by Michael and June Massey
Book reviews: A time to learn
November 7th 2008
Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500, by Hugh Prince; War-torn Skies of Hertfordshire, by Julian Evan-Hart; Branch Line to Dunstable, by Sue and Geoff Woodward; The Graphic Shakespeare Series, by Hilary Burningham
Agatha Christie and a Shere murder mystery
November 7th 2008
The undisputed queen of crime, Agatha Christie has sold literally millions of books across the world. But in a bizarre case of life imitating art, the strangest story of all concerns the night that she faked her own death at Newlands Corner, near ...
Hunting and Hounds in the Cotswolds
November 5th 2008
In this extract from his recently-published book, Rory Knight Bruce regales us with tales of hunting with the Beaufort, the Berkeley and the Weston Farmers
Cobham crime writer Meg Gardiner on her perfect Surrey weekend
October 13th 2008
Crime writer Meg Gardiner was originally a lawyer in Los Angeles and became a successful novelist when she moved to Surrey. She now lives in Cobham and her latest book, The Dirty Secrets Club, is due out in July. When the weekend arrives, she enjo...
City rockers
September 23rd 2008
In an extract from a new book about The Clash, Paul Simonon remembers moving to Notting Hill and his first glimpse of Joe Strummer
Book reviews: Books to get you moving
September 12th 2008
Exploring Woodland: East Anglia and North Thames, by Woodland Trust; Waterside Walks In The Chilterns, by Jean Patefield; Tring 1951-2000, by Jill Fowler; Conducting Terror, by Julian Hopkins
The House of Fallen Women
September 5th 2008
In Victorian Shepherd's Bush, prostitutes were disappearing off the streets in search of a better life. Neil McKelvie finds out what happened
Book yourself some fun - Lancashire Reads
August 19th 2008
Lancashire Life has teamed up with the county's library service to launch Lancashire Reads Photographs by John Cocks
Book reviews: Something for everyone
August 18th 2008
Cathedral by Jon Cannon; The Home Guard in Hertfordshire 1952-1957 by J D Sainsbury; Walter Rothschild: The Man, the Museum and the Menagerie by Miriam Rothschild; The White Witch of Spiton and the Serpent of Anata by Tracey Rolfe
Book club
June 12th 2008
Karl Webster discovers Book Slam, the night that transforms Neighbourhood from nightclub to literary haunt
The great divide
June 10th 2008
Fiona Keating talks to Blackheath novelist Blake Morrison for his views on living south of the river
Thorney issue
May 26th 2008
Serial Killers, rapists, gangland violence, kidnapping... Mark Billingham's books don't hold back with its dark subject matters, but what is the best-selling author actually like?
Book reviews: An emotional read
May 22nd 2008
Somewhere Over The Rainbow, by Linda Pottinger; A Fabric Of Dreams, by Danielle Shaw; The Kammersee Affair, by John Holt; The Accidental Wife, by Rowan Coleman
Sarah Anderson
May 7th 2008
Notting Hill travel-bookshop owner and author, Sarah Anderson talks to Lydia Williams about her famous Travel Bookshop, that film and the release of her autobiography
Zizou Corder
May 2nd 2008
In a house in Shepherd's Bush, a novelist mum, a teenager and a host of fictional characters jostle for attention. Alistair Duncan meets bestselling writing partnership, Zizou Corder
On the buses
April 20th 2008
The performance poet talks to Alistair Duncan about teachers and Xylofoxes
Book reviews: Mum's the word
April 1st 2008
A Harpenden Childhood Remembered: Growing up in the 1940s & '50s by John Cooper; How To Get A Celeb's Body by Elise Lindsay; Imperfectly Natural Baby and Toddler by Janey Lee Grace; Hidden Trees of Britain by Archie Miles
Book reviews: Ghosts and Gardeners
March 12th 2008
Alastair Sawday's British Hotels & Inns, Edited by Tom Bell; A Gardener's Life, by the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury; Africa to the Amazon, by Bill Brooks; Stately Ghosts Compiled by the Historic Houses Association
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