Love at First Verse: Poems for Every Kind of Love

Valentine’s Day isn’t just about romantic love —it’s a celebration of love in all its forms. From passionate romance to...

The Library is OPEN

Recapping my January 2025 reads Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell "I didn't plan to fall in...

Reading Breakup Books

really good, actually (2023) by Monica Heisey really good, actually "Maggie's marriage has ended just 608 days after it started,...

Gays The Word Bookshop

I recently visited Gays The Word, the oldest LGBT bookshop in the UK, for a book event co-chaired by Bethany...

Four Daughters at the Garden Cinemas

The Garden Cinemas Every year I set out to watch all the Oscar nominated documentaries before the awards and every...

Chicken Soup

This year I made it one of my resolutions to cook my way through a cooking book and for some...

Faith Ringgold: Art and Activism

Faith Ringgold was born in 1930 in Harlem, New York City, her parents had been part of the Great Migration...

Easy Beauty

Easy Beauty By Chloé Cooper Jones "I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men, my friends, discuss...

Reading the Classics: 5 Favourite Foodie Quotes from Laurie Colwins Home Cooking

I’ve been reading Home Cooking as my bedtime book and I LOVE it, it’s so easy to dip in and...

Día de los Muerto in the Temporate House at Kew

Una Ofrenda Floreciendo en su Memoria (An Offering of Blossoms in their Memory) by Betsabeé Romera The inspiration for this...

Procession by Huw Locke

Every year The Tate Britain commission an Artist to make a piece for the Duveen Gallery, in 2020 (just before...