Box Hill in the Spring is the place to visit.
Category Archives: Culture
All Our Wrong Todays Review
Tom Barren comes from the world we were supposed to have. One where if you have a black eye you have a home medical drone ice it; if you get a cut, medical technicians help you with skin-regeneration lamps; the streets are filled with buildings that are ‘encased in landscape emulators to give you the view you’d have if no other structures existed to block it’. But something goes wrong. Continue reading All Our Wrong Todays Review
Magnolia Tree
When the skies are blue and the trees are pink, I’ll be outside capturing the Spring opening up.
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
‘First Love’ is about Neve, a writer in her mid-30s who is married to an older man named Edwyn, and it tells the story of what her life was like before. Continue reading First Love by Gwendoline Riley
RHS Wisley Plans
If you go down to Wisley today, you’re sure of a big surprise. Continue reading RHS Wisley Plans
‘Swimming Lessons’ by Claire Fuller Review
Gil Coleman is a well-known, ageing writer who has just found a letter, loose in a book in a bookshop addressed to him, and at that very moment he thinks he sees his wife Ingrid, who has been missing for 11 years, through the window on the street outside. Continue reading ‘Swimming Lessons’ by Claire Fuller Review
January Super Heroes
On the face of it, January is a very exciting time. New beginnings. A clean slate. Jodhpur-based exercise regimes. In reality? It needs a little help to successfully appeal to all. And this help comes in the form of…
Merry Christmas!
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
With love from Alice xxx
Christmas Book Gift Guide 2016
Unwrapping a book on Christmas Day is a thing of sheer joy. Particularly if it’s one of these…
Osborne House Isle of Wight
Osborne House was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s holiday home.
The royal family usually visited four times each year. Victoria and Albert tried to spend their birthdays together at Osborne, as private, family celebrations.
