By Kirsty Wark Romance, adolescence, bereavement, trauma, addiction… how many life events can you fit into one family saga? Kirsty Wark has included these and many more in The House by the Loch, along with their attendant emotive issues of jealousy, love, guilt, deceit, disappointment and ambition. Best to keep…

Lockdown and Little Fires Everywhere What do the Covid 19 lockdown and ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ by Celeste Ng have in common? (Apart, of course, from the fact that the former gave us time to read the latter!) Quite a lot — not the fires, except for the few that were…

Flights of Fancy Birthday in August? How do you plan to spend it? Venturing slowly out of lockdown? How would you spend it if it was your 79th? Naomi Christie, ex-president of the British Women Pilots’ Association, spent hers standing on a Tiger Moth — in flight! That was on…