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Day 220: we had a day out in Newbury including shopping at the vegan fair, lunch at the Slug and Lettuce and a visit to Shaw House. Day 221: no mince for a chilli! These vegan strips from  Iceland were in the freezer and worked well 🙂 Day 222: we’ve been going for a daily […]

Josie Quinn has been on leave since the death of her beloved grandmother Lisette. On the day before she is due to return to work, she finds a woman’s murdered body in the cemetery. The victim is the mother of a child killed in a bus crash and the driver is about to go on […]

  1820: Mercy, the orphan of an African prince, is uprooted from her life when her benefactor dies. She goes to live with Dr and Mrs Stephens who are relatives of her former friend. They espouse anti slavery rhetoric yet continue to patronise her. One night she meets Matthew, a black man who has been […]

Learning Italian has always been something I have wanted to do, along with a visit to Italy itself one day! My dad’s grandfather was Italian before moving to England, marrying an English woman and was a merchant seaman during the First World War. I saw that one of my friends was using Duolingo so I […]

The body of a young woman is discovered. She has been strangled and the condition of her body makes identification tricky. DI Bernadette Noel interviews the teenaged boy who discovered the body and meets his 12 year old sister Laura who uploaded details to social media. Shortly afterwards, Laura disappears… Broken Girls is the second […]