Woman, Eating'Absolutely brilliant tragic funny eccentric . . . Claire Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own' RUTH OZEKI Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi ramen onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But Lydia can't eat any of this. The only thing she can

· Have fun in any social situation without drinking

Working as a secretary for the BBC at the time Sarah's diary describes the life of a suburban girl who certainly wasn't 'swinging' but who was ironically not only working on a cutting edge BBC survey on sex education but also in the throes of an unlikely affair with middle-aged working-class Irish lift attendant Frank

he shows that despite reforms and international reconciliation the Castro regime remains a corrupt

one for each of the continents

Energize Your Mind

egg-freezing crazes

read by Hugh Fraser

and full of surprises

Following the success of Mountain High: Europe's Greatest Cycle Climbs comes a volume focusing on the continent's lesser-known

whose clothes revealed traces of the victim’s blood and hair

Women move through the world differently from men

and includes a brief account of the origins of the movements