…Robert Pattison (or R-Pat to use the current teen lingo…) The movie hits cinemas across the country this Friday 20 November – and so yes, vampire mania is back in…

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…whopping NINETY-ONE POUNDS (and that’s the discounted price). So, the fridge is where is my Pantone sampler is going to live from now on. In an air-tight, lightproof, padlocked metal…

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…provides us with recipes for good, wholesome, simple food.   Find delicious traditional favourites like Bangers & Mash and Chicken Liver Pate, be inspired by new alternatives such as Red…

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…Trouble ensues when a woman from the Home Office vanishes; a mysterious lady turns up at the archery shooting gallery; and Paul’s gambling addiction worsens . . .  Recommend This:…

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The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl wasn’t a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was…

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The second book in the Mercia Blakewood historical crime series that spans Restoration London and the New World Following adventures she would sooner forget in the newly renamed New York,…

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Nominated for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger forward this email to ten friends each of those friends must forward it to ten friends maybe one of those friends…

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THE HARDBACK EDITION WILL BE SUPPLIED AT THE PAPERBACK PRICE Behind the elegant doors of Caper Court, the elite barrister’s chamber, are the hard choices, the ethical dilemmas, the overlap…

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…for the Fiction Award (which went to Glimpse of Happiness by Jean Fullerton). Run by Redbridge Libraries, the Big Red Read saw forty authors nominated for the awards across non-fiction…

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…to decide if it’s a nonchalant or petulant pose) and the brighter The Fair Maid of Bohemia (where I’m inexplicably drawn to the silver creases of the woman’s fabulous dress)….

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…the woman’s lovely raspberry-red dress. I am starting to see a pattern emerging (I already took a shining to Maisie Dobbs’ hat on the cover of A Lesson in Secrets…

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…(woman): Reading Room by Emma Donoghue Should be reading One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna Lovely lobster-red couple (man): Reading something by Jo Nesbo Should soon be reading The Princess…

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1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina and her family survive only because their precious farm produce is needed to feed the occupying forces….

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…have been interesting if I hadn’t already seen this unorthodox packaging on the cookbook Pulpo (see my previous cover story blog). With Pulpo however, aside from being innovative, the lack…

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…as sweet as it is – far better to use the Boston Freedom Trail – literally a red line painted on the ground which you can follow like a trail…

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…iconic Peckham library). Bookbed, by local artist Ruth Beale, explores learning, imagination and the book-as-symbol alongside current thinking in culture, education and public space. As the venue’s opening exhibition, Bookbed…

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…font and deep Russian red of the title works particularly well against the pale background. I even like the use of the black left border – not just a nice…

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…ancient book, offers a £1 million reward for anyone who can find it along with a missing Murano vase. But the price on the book’s head brings all sorts of…

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Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece’s missing fiancé and the body in the bushes at Belsfield Hall,…

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…Holmes-ians can read between the lines of Doyles own handwriting and search for clues themselves. Read the full article in The Guardian, here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/28/sherlock-holmes-story-museum-of-london-conan-doyle Visit the Museum of London http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/sherlock-holmes/…

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Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who…

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