NATURE THE NIGHTINGALE by Sam Lee (Century £14.99, 240pp) At 10.45pm on May, 19, 1924, BBC radio announcer Rex Palmer interrupted the Saturday evening broadcast by dance band The Savoy Orpheans to whisk listeners into a Surrey woodland, where cellist Beatrice Harrison had been joined by a nightingale. In those days, just two years after … Read more
Delightful Daphnes: Plant these pretty shrubs and blossom will fill the air Daphnes are a small but valuable genus of flowering shrubs you can grow in UK They come from Europe, North Africa and Asia with 2 species native to Britain The better known, Daphne mezereum, has fragrant, purple-pink spring flowers By Nigel Colborn for … Read more
From a German WWII bicycle fitted with an anti-tank weapon to a rare image of Thomas Hardy with a bike: Delightful book charts 200 years of cycling with fascinating photos Peter Ashley is author of new book The Bicycle – A Miscellany on Two Wheels It reveals how bikes have been cycled for pleasure, put … Read more
From a German WWII bicycle fitted with an anti-tank weapon to a rare image of Thomas Hardy with a bike: Delightful book charts 200 years of cycling with fascinating images By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor Published: 16:48 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 16:49 GMT, 4 February 2021 ‘The appeal about bicycles is that … Read more
Why I’m nuts about red squirrels: Prince Charles hails the ‘inquisitive and delightful’ animals as he praises volunteers helping to protect them Said he admires the creatures and he lets them roam around his Birkhall home Even leaves his jackets outside with nuts left in the pockets for the squirrels Prince marked Squirrel Appreciation Day … Read more
Why I’m nuts about red squirrels: Prince Charles hails the ‘inquisitive and delightful’ animals as he praises volunteers helping to protect them Said he admires the creatures and he lets them roam around his Birkhall home Even leaves his jackets outside with nuts left in the pockets for the squirrels Prince marked Squirrel Appreciation Day … Read more
Eiza Gonzalez rocks a delightful multicolored striped sweater and ‘Vote’ face mask while out to get some coffee in Los Angeles By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 08:16 GMT, 6 January 2021 | Updated: 20:21 GMT, 6 January 2021 She’s the gorgeous star of films such as Baby Driver and Alita: Battle Angel. And Eiza … Read more
The French Art Of Not Trying Too Hard Ollivier Pourriol Profile £12.99 … Read more
Redhead By The Side Of The Road Anne Tyler Chatto & Windus £14.99 Rating: On one level, the novels of Anne Tyler are as straightforward and unobtrusive as her name. Her prose style is clear and unshowy. Her sentences have no flourishes. You could almost say that their only identifying feature is their lack of … Read more
The Secret Guests B W Black Viking £8.99 Rating: Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Sue Townsend’s comic novel The Queen And I is set in a republican Britain, reducing Queen Elizabeth to living in a two-bedroom semi-detached, under the supervision … Read more