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A modern family Christmas – India Knight’s insightful new novel
2nd December 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
On the last day of November every year I hang a faded purple velvet advent calendar up in the kitchen and fill the 24 pockets with sweets. My daughter’s at university now and at 16 my son thinks advent calendars are babyish, but I’m still doing it. And he’ll gobble up the sweets before he leaves for the school bus every morning.
I’m not particularly keen on tradition most of the... -
My top ten books of the year
15th December 2009 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
Newspapers are busy filling their pages with their top tens of the year. 2009 has been a vintage year for fiction so here are a few of my Christmas must-reads. High-brow, low-brow, you name it, it’s an eclectic list. In no particular order (as they say on The X-Factor), my favourites include:
1: I've bought Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, £7.99) for almost everyone I know. An ambitious, epic novel, it... -
Bond Street in the country
9th December 2009 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
When I moved to the wilds of Oxfordshire I was amazed to discover we had the out-of-town equivalent of Bond Street right on the doorstep. Bicester Village looks like a quaint New England street, all white clapboard shop-fronts and tasteful landscaping, but in reality it’s a shoppers’ paradise just two miles off the M40.
The 130 or so shops include all the names fashionistas worth their salt dream about, from Vivienne... -
The devastating floods in Cumbria
23rd November 2009 | 0 comments | 4 people like this
The devastation the floods have wrought in Cumbria is truly shocking. With its soaring peaks and gorgeous countryside, the Lake District is one of the most beautiful places I know. Now the area around Cockermouth, Workington and Keswick looks more like a mud swamp, with towns and villages cut off from the outside world and predictions that many people won’t be able to move back into their houses for months...
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Emma Lee-Potter
Emma Lee-Potter is a journalist and author of four novels. She has two teenage children and spends her spare time worrying about the ramshackle farmhouse she bought in the south of France. The wreck has half a roof, assorted wildlife and an alarming damp problem but her friends assure her it all be perfect by 2020. She writes a weekly blog for Easy Living magazine.
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