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Christmas lunch. Comfort food, stodgy, warming. Not this year. Last week I had my Christmas meal with one set of colleagues in a local pub. This has been booked since October. We had let them know of my vegan and gluten free requirements. They were supposed to phone me. On the morning of the meal […]

Only a couple of days to go until Christmas and you suddenly realise that a friend or family member is vegan… No vegan gift ideas? Don’t panic! Here are some ideas from a fellow vegan that I would appreciate receiving but are also easy to pick up at the supermarket or high street stores: Vegan […]

  Detective Iris Locke is still reeling from the outcome of her previous case in Silent Night and I would advise reading the first in the series to get the background story (plus it was really good!) In this case, a teenager goes missing and her support worker is found dead. Could Eleanor be a […]

  TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION He Knows Your Secrets but you also know his! This book is action packed from the very first chapter when a girl attacks a taxi driver and forces the car over the cliff, killing them both. Her actions were to save her lover Kelly from a life of […]

Set in Scotland, Love Potions and Other Calamities is a warm and rich farcical tale of herbal ‘witch’ Rosie. She is struggling to cope with the idea of turning 40 and feels decidedly unattractive. She hopes to uses her plant power to entice her husband’s lust but the plan goes awry, kicking off a string […]