Juicy tales of the world’s smelliest fruit! Poet whose husband begged her to throw away a durian, examines the most challenging produce to grow and cook U.S. poet Kate Lebo is the author of two cookery books about fruit pies Reveals the most difficult to grow and challenging fruits to cook in a new book … Read more
The joys (and sorrows!) of life in suburbia: People who’ve left the city behind share their hilarious stories – from leaving the door unlocked so the postman can ‘pop in’ to a neighbour who VACUUMS the driveway Reddit users shared their stories after swapping their city lives for the suburbs British woman sparked thread revealing she’d … Read more
FAIRY TALES By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 19 November 2020 GENDER SWAPPED FAIRY TALES by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett (Faber £20, 208pp) GENDER SWAPPED FAIRY TALES by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett (Faber £20, 208pp) Once upon a time, Jonathan Plackett developed … Read more
My first glimpse of Jean Shrimpton was when I poked my head round the door of my mate Brian Duffy’s photographic studio. She’d been sent by a model agency and was posing for a Kellogg’s ad. Duffy was using a sky-blue background, and you could see the sky behind her eyes, as if you could … Read more
The Haunting Of Alma Fielding Kate Summerscale Bloomsbury Circus £18.99 Rating: Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives Of Aunt Munca Ferdinand Mount … Read more
A luxury apartment once renovated by Alexander McQueen in a historic building where renowned comedic author P.G. Wodehouse penned his famous tales has gone on the market for £6.95million. The spectacular penthouse in London’s Mayfair was bought by the late fashion designer in 2009, a year before he tragically took his own life, and while he never got … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE GRAN TOUR by Ben Aitken (Icon £14.99, 306 pp) When Ben Aitken discovers that for £109 he can get a four-night coach trip to Scarborough, with a cooked breakfast every morning, three-course dinner every night and excursions to York and Whitby, his first thought is: ‘That’s how much my sister … Read more
Ministers were last night facing mounting pressure to give Afghan interpreters sanctuary in Britain immediately as more came forward to reveal their plight. The shocking stories of 48 interpreters who worked alongside British forces and say they have since been abandoned to the Taliban are laid bare in the Daily Mail today. Around 150 interpreters … Read more
Net curtains. They’re respectable enough when they hang straight, especially when made from lace, not nylon. But if they’re drawn to the side with a loop hitching them up at the middle, they’re common — like a blousy woman emerging from the lavatory who doesn’t realise she’s got the hem of her underskirt tucked into … Read more
As Britain’s most beloved vet, James Herriot’s delightfully honest and at times hilarious reminiscences of a vet’s life in 1930s Yorkshire charmed millions in his books — and were turned into a long-running hit series. And as this exclusive reprint reveals around 50 years after it was first published, his magical work is still able … Read more