Open a book and open your heart

If you’ve lost your love for reading, here’s why and how to rekindle it. Not only will getting stuck into a good book reduce your stress levels and up your wellbeing, it’s been shown to delay the onset of dementia, too. Need help choosing? Here are 25 reads we recommend…

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At a literary festival in the sleepy town of Hoslewit, gruesome events are about to unfold. Writer Jane Hepburn is hoping to make it big at the Killer Lines Crime Festival by networking with all the r

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