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In a series of personal reflections on power inspired by the story of Jesus’ Passion, six essays tracing the hidden currents of power in everyday life: how it shapes us, how it works, how it wounds, and how it can be resisted, claimed, and reclaimed. Mina Smallman is a retired …

Homemaking and Housekeeping: Forgotten Wisdom for Modern Times celebrates the rites and rituals that for centuries have marked the seasons around the world, from natural spring cleaning to the planting of seeds, through the summer months where home and garden can be enriched with floral and edible bounty, from rose …

Paul lives a quiet, tightly controlled life, dividing his time between the gym and his local pub. A former boxer, he keeps his distance from the world. Then he meets Duncan. Charismatic, reckless and impossible to ignore, Duncan draws Paul into an unlikely friendship that begins to change everything. As …

Alex Taylor BBC News Published 22 January 2026 Being a parent and working as a hostage negotiator don’t immediately appear to have a lot in common, but someone who has been both says tricks she learnt in her profession can help you at home. Nicky Perfect spent over 30 years …

London, 1940. When Jess Gresham arrives in the capital, she’s completely out of her depth. With bombs falling and a heartbreaking family lie about her beloved sister to get to the bottom of, can she find the help she needs at a Mayfair lodging house? When Jess discovers the letter …