Olive is always unlucky in love, career, well almost everything, but her twin sister Ami, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is a fairy tale, and she has managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of internet contests. Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who happens to be the best man. Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from … Continue reading Unlucky in love

The former UK chancellor tells the story of his upbringing as the son of Punjabi immigrants, navigating poverty, racism and the tensions of straddling two cultures in 1970s Britain. Javid reflects how these early challenges forged his resilience and shaped his path from adversity to a position at the heart of British public life. “Run, Paki, Run”, the words ricocheted off the walls of the Rochdale underpass that connected Sajid Javid’s home and primary school. As a five-year-old boy, he had learned that 70s Britain could be a cruel and violent place for those seen as outsiders. Leaving behind the … Continue reading Never Give up: Dream big

Award-winning author Morgan Housel’s, The Psychology of Money, has 19 short stories which explores the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics. Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know, but it’s about how you behave, which is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money – Investing, personal finance and business decisions is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real-world people do not make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. … Continue reading Wealth Greed and Happiness

Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy’s incredible first memoir is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm”. Distraught and even a “little ashamed” at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen. Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, funny chronicle  which is unique and simultaneously universal, of the author’s … Continue reading Love and savage grace- a mother like no other

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French heritage to become a cross-generational world appeal, as few bags have caught the appeal of grandmothers, mothers and daughters alike, the Longchamp Le Pliage bag, launched in 1993 inspired by Japanese origami and named after the French word for “folding”, the tote made from recycled nylon canvas, with beautiful leather handles, snap-button flap costing around £125. The Longchamp Le Pliage has been adopted as the school bag favourite choice by Generation Z. You don’t have to be Princes of Wales or Kendall Jenner or Angela Merkel to own and use one. Jean Cassegrain’s family privately owns the brand founded … Continue reading Cross-generational favourite handbag

Contemporary Gardens features an astonishing 300 gardens around the world, each accompanied by knowledgeable detailed descriptions of both public and private gardens like the exotic reinvention of the Old Rose Garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex and Sarah Price’s community garden. The Exchange in Erith, in North Kensington, The Grass Gardens at the Horniman, High Line, Changi Airport Garden, dreamy hillside garden in Morocco by Umberto Pasti, African Ancestors Memorial Garden, Chihuly Garden & Glass, Gardens by the Bay, Brook Gardens, Jardins d’Etretat, The Opera Park, Anna Wintour’s elegant garden in upstate New York by Miranda Brooks and Prairie … Continue reading Inspirational connection with the natural world