MedClaudia Roden is credited with revolutionising Western attitudes to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food. Over 30 years on from her first Mediterranean cookbook, Claudia shares the sun soaked simplicity of the Mediterranean with new recipes for effortless, everyday cooking. This is how Claudia cooks for friends and family always putting flavour first, beautiful ingredients, fuss free cooking, relaxed eating. From Provence to Petra, Madrid to Morocco,

debonair dancer Raymond de Guise will want to fight for his country and enlist

Bertie's father Stuart is powerless to stop over-bearing Irene and her motion for Bertie to travel to Aberdeen on a three-month secondment

as well as groups of Poles and Jews

refusing to let any barriers stand in her way

can old wounds heal

and now he's approaching his 80th birthday with record sales of over 250m and counting

Have you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars

They can sulk

In 'The Swallow' Stephen Moss documents a year of observing the swallow close to home and in the field to shed light on the secret life of these extraordinary birds

where the shadows hide secrets waiting to be discovered

he knows he must take them far from the Grey Zone so they can collect their pollen in peace

Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse