Cafés are the great social levellers. Not as raucous as a bar and too relaxed to be a restaurant, they have a reputation for being open, lively and dense with talk. Excellent public spaces, they’ve become a place to chat; to sit and think; to meet and discuss; to argue, to mix ideas and play… [Continue Reading]

Self-confessed romantic Kay Therese Jones continues her series, this time developing her theme that you can judge a perfume by its name. ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover.’ Really? This is nonsense, as I have proved many times, the most striking example in my possession being The Book of Romance, a truly glorious… [Continue Reading]