Anne of Green Gables

Autumn: time for a pie

Autumn, season of conkers and new boots

26 September 2015 9:00 am

Each year when I see the first conker of the autumn I think: fire up the ancestral ovens! This incendiary…

Scarlett O’Hara runs through the streets of burning Atlanta

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18 January 2014 9:00 am

This book arose from an argument. Lifelong bookworm Samantha Ellis and her best friend had gone to Brontë country and…