The Farmer's Wife, Helen Rebanks

The Farmer's Wife, Helen RebanksNew Paperback This honest and heartwarming memoir offers a portrait of the labour and glory of keeping a home and raising a family. Weaving past and present, Helen Rebanks shares her highs and lows, from the emotional journey to the birth of her first child, and the endless improvisation of each night's dinner, to the dog gobbling up her daughter's freshly made birthday cake. These are days that have shaped her, and the ways she finds the quiet

Touching on grief

The countryside offes a wide range of monuments

life rules and some great excuses that'll get you out of all sorts of tricky situations

County Durham features the legacy of the brilliant culture of the age of Bede

This was the region Alexander the Great had swept through

in the most unexpected of locations

As armoured fighting vehicles the early panzers were no better than - sometimes inferior to - those of their opponents

and defenses of women

from the urbanised landscape of the cities of Leeds

and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today

But what if it lies

the second woman to climb Mont Blanc