Consider yourself kissedWhen she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter of an inch taller than the average British male. His charming four year old daughter, Zora, only adds to his appeal. But ten years on, something important is missing from the life Coralie and Adam have built. Or maybe, having gained everything she dreamed of, Coralie has lost something she once had: herself.

about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997

It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society

money and sex

looking at her art

sits an old

on the importance of food (with herfavourite recipes)

Islamic civilisation was once the envy of the world

David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy

secret world begin to take over their public one

he swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west

As Beauvois's lover and his muse

world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction