Did I Say That Out Loud?Jane Garvey and Fi Glover offer a series of essays interspersed with the waspish asides for which they are beloved, with witty musings on their lives, from pet deaths and garden hose repairs to the gender pay gap and the trouble with HRT patches. Their book promises to take mid life by its elasticated waist and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush. At a time of constant uncertainty, what we all need is the wisdom and experience of two women

who became the owner of Mustique

only after Sam Bennett suffered an injury

with an underlying message about loving and caring for animals

We think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings

Her mother

dining with generals or vividly chronicling market life - shortly before war and revolution swept that world away

Andrew Martin goes out to meet these enthusiasts and find out just what it is about preserved railways which makes people so devoted

who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror and oppression

Yet the Seanchan are but one obstacle in his path

Beginning in the 1960s

Florrie's life changes and she moves from country to city

a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill