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So, what do you think we should get Elsie this year? She’ll be a hundred and one next Saturday.” Jemma beckoned her husband over to her laptop where ‘Granny Gifts’ ranging from bird baths to potted ja

IT had been a long, hard drive. Frances had left early, hoping to get away before the rush hour – only to discover that the rush hour started earlier still. She stopped for a break further south than

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

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Bestselling author Bolu Babalola is back with her hotly anticipated new novel, Sweet Heat . It’s three years after their intense breakup, and Kiki has worked hard to forgive her first love, Malakai. They’re about to see each other again for the first time at the engagement party of their respective best friends, Aminah and Kofi, as none other than maid of honour and best man. Read on for an exclusive insight into the moment they lock eyes, during Kiki’s speech about her best friends at the event in London...

I PULLED back the living-room curtains and stopped singing along to the radio, frozen to the spot. How could this be? It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shining, the birds had been singing up a s