The People's Friend Special Magazine

23 March 2022

The People's Friend Special - Issue 223 - Our 100-page bumper Spring Special is packed with stories and features that celebrate this most hopeful of seasons, with 19 original short stories, a thrilling eight-page crime mystery set in the 1900s by Liz Filleul and lots more! Polly Pullar is on the look-out for the first signs of spring in nature, Willie Shand discovers the charms of a Japanese garden in central Scotland, and Laura Brown pays tribute to the vintage guidebooks that have stood the test of time. Richard Webber visits the beautiful Channel Island of Jersey, Solange Hando heads further afield to Bergen in Norway, and Pat Coulter spends a day at Somerset’s Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum. We’ve puzzles, easy recipes for quick meals and a pretty floral wreath to make, too.