Health: A simple solution for sore eyes By Dr Clare Bailey for You Magazine Published: 00:03 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 12 April 2020 ‘The puffy red rims make me look as if I’ve been crying’ For weeks I have been waking up with gritty eyes and my eyelids stuck together. I … Read more
NATURE GREENERY: JOURNEYS IN SPRINGTIME by Tim Dee (Jonathan Cape £18.99, 355pp) One of the most joyous sights of spring is the return of the swallows, swooping and diving in the air, their forked tails slicing through the sky. Few of us give much thought to the journey that brings them back to Britain each year. … Read more
Redhead By The Side Of The Road Anne Tyler Chatto & Windus £14.99 Rating: On one level, the novels of Anne Tyler are as straightforward and unobtrusive as her name. Her prose style is clear and unshowy. Her sentences have no flourishes. You could almost say that their only identifying feature is their lack of … Read more
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Blood, guts and junk food! Fascinating new book delves into the lives of fishermen on trawler boats Lamorna Ash recounts the months she spent living with Cornish fishermen A playwright in London, she lodged with a couple in the village of Newlyn Almost everyone she met in the fishing village has lost someone to the … Read more
On The Road James Naughtie Simon & Schuster £20 Rating: As a young student with journalistic ambitions, the broadcaster and former Radio … Read more
Author Maggie Brookes knew her father had been taken prisoner in the Second World War. But it wasn’t until after his death and the discovery of a gut-wrenchingly detailed diary that she understood the extent of the cruelties he endured at the hands of the Nazis Maggie with her father As a child growing up … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more
BBC iPLAYER & ALL 4 Killing Eve International hitwoman Villanelle and MI6 operative Eve did not exactly part on the best of terms at the end of last series, and things are not going particularly well for either of them at the start of Series Three. Villanelle (Jodie Comer, above with Stefan Iancu) and Eve … Read more
Elizabeth Day: My complicated relationship with… my dishwasher By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:03 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 12 April 2020 Hair: Fabio Nogueira. Make-up: Ruby Hammer. Styling: Holly Elgeti. Blouse, Lisou. Trousers, Roland Mouret. Jewellery, Alighieri You can tell a lot about a person from their dishwasher etiquette. … Read more