CARO JOWETT

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...

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...

I saw an angel yesterday. He was perched atop a pailing outside Waterstone's St Albans, in a blue and green hand-knitted gown, with a...

Dear Santa If you are struggling for last minute presents, here are five (in no particular order) novels from the last year that anyone...

A Gift From Bob by James Bowen (Hodder, £7.99) I defy anyone to read this heart-warming tale without shedding a tear. From the minute you...

Wordplay by Gyles Brandreth (Coronet, £14.99) At Christmas, book elves' shelves groan with new titles from cookery to biography and...

Serves 4-6 1 large free-range chicken, spatchcocked (ask your butcher to do this for you) 6 tbsp pomegranate molasses, plus extra for...

I’ve just come back from a whistlestop tour of the Baltic region. Eight days of exploring and eating in Copenhagen, Tallinn, Riga and...

Serves 6 Ras el hanout is a north African blend of sweet and hot ground spices. There's no definitive list, but hanout means "shop" in...

A Snow Garden by Rachel Joyce, (Transworld, £9.99) Rachel Joyce's writing sneaks up on you. Just when you think you're reading a nice...