Cressida Connolly

Comfort the suffering

11 March 2017 9:00 am

If a single book could help you to be kinder and more compassionate, could expand and deepen your understanding of…

Comfort the suffering

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

If a single book could help you to be kinder and more compassionate, could expand and deepen your understanding of…

Between pony club and the altar

12 November 2016 9:00 am

If you were to take a large dragnet and scoop up all the shoppers in the haberdashery department of Peter…

All is not lost

14 March 2013 2:00 pm

Phyllida Law has a delightfully natural style, a gift for anecdote and the knack of seeing the funny side of…

All is not lost

14 March 2013 2:00 pm

Phyllida Law has a delightfully natural style, a gift for anecdote and the knack of seeing the funny side of…

Growing old disgracefully

17 January 2013 2:00 pm

Virginia Ironside’s novel, No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses (Quercus £14.99) about a 65-year-old granny who belongs to a local…

Virginia Ironside

Growing old disgracefully

17 January 2013 2:00 pm

Virginia Ironside’s novel, No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses (Quercus £14.99) about a 65-year-old granny who belongs to a local…

Bookends: Trouble and strife

4 February 2012 11:00 am

It isn’t true that Joanna Trollope (pictured above) only produces novels about the kind of people who have an Aga…

Bookends: Squelch of the bladder-wrack

15 October 2011 11:00 am

What’s not to like about Candida Lycett Green’s Seaside Resorts (Oldie Publications, £14.99)? Lovely colour photographs of over 100 of…