AUTHOR Emma Becker REFLECTS ON HER TWO YEARS WORKING IN A BERLIN BROTHEL, WHERE THE WOMEN SET THE RULES, CHOSE THEIR CLIENTS AND STAYED FIRMLY ON TOP

YOU can’t just throw it all in a skip, Mum!” Bryony’s voice was muffled by a dust mask as she crouched in the loft space, carefully avoiding bumping her head on the beams. She examined a battered trun

IT was one of those overheard snatches of conversations that immediately makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was

BRUCE peeked through the curtain, watching the commotion as the new neighbours moved in next door. He heard Iris’s voice in his head. “Two women! Well, I never!” One of the women was heavily pregnant

Apart from the For Sale board, the house didn’t look any different from the last time I was here. Six months ago now. The day of my father’s funeral. A memory of how fragile my mother appeared that da

Sunshine, a better work-life balance and cheaper living costs – it’s the dream for some, and statistics suggest more of us are going in search of it. Around five million Brits currently live abroad, w