This list of favourites I read in 2025 should help light the way to some fabulous holiday reading for you. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst – Actor Dave Win recreates episodes from his life as a gay, mixed-race person. Dave’s tenderest portrait is of his mother Avril, a seamstress, who brought him up alone in
Did you know that the Aldabra giant tortoise (at 4.5 metres per minute) is the most sluggish of all tortoises and that its poo provides a culinary feast for hermit crabs? What about the star-nosed mole, who can eat five times its body weight in a day, making it the world’s fastest eater? Or the
During the second half of 2025, these are the poems that leached through me with their eloquence on the red lamps of hindsight, a paper wasp kingdom, the round jubilance of peach and so much more. Read on … ‘Separation’ by Marie Howe Driving out of town, I see him crossing / the Brooks Pharmacy
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