
End of the pier show comes to town
If you know Tim Hunkin from his C4 show The Secret Life Of Machines or his books, Almost Everything There Is To Know and Hunkin's Experiements, then you probably won't be surprised to learn about his passion for automata. If you've spent any time at all in Southwold then you definitely won't. Hunkin's Under The Pier Show arcade has been issuing tokens to holidaymakers for over fifteen years. Hunkin, an engineer and cartoonist with a passion for the eighteenth century satirist

Wickham Hall
Wickham Hall by Cathy Bramley (Corgi, £6.99) MLXLS I love a happy ending, don't you? A follow-your-dreams kind of romance where nothing too terrible happens but true love follows its path and happiness reigns. It's a skill to pull off a novel like that without populating it with stereotyped characters and a cliché-ed plot, but Cathy Bramley has the knack and she's funny too: sometimes gentle, sometimes wry but always warm and witty. Holly Swift is a neat freak, she can't fun