Miss Marple returns
Miss Jane Marple is back – this time on holiday in the Swiss Alps with her friend Dolly Bantry, when a body is discovered inside a gondola. With routes to the luxurious Grand Alpine Hotel cut , a local detective helps solve the case, with Miss Marple, of course. Told from the perspective of the suspects – including a Hollywood star, put-upon wife, mysterious former soldier and Dolly’s lady’s companion Diana Glass – twists and turns keep you guessing as hidden connections emerge.
Harnessing hope
Caitlin Moran's mission to be hopeful is an uplifting antidote to doomscrolling and dread. After trying (and failing) to flee to a remote Welsh farmhouse, she decides to face the world and find hope instead. Over the course of a year she logs off social media, swaps rolling news for the local paper, and starts listening to the gossip on the top deck of the bus. Along the way there's a new dog, a re-wilded garden, and a great deal of hard-won joy. She makes the persuasive case that we all already know how to be hopeful, we’ve just forgotten that we need to practise it daily.
