Constance Craig Smith

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50 PLANTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by Stephen A. Harris; Jaw-dropping effect of wheat on our faces! By CONSTANCE CRAIG SMITH Published: 11:55 EDT, 23 May 2025 | Updated: 11:55 EDT, 23 May 2025 50 PLANTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by Stephen A. Harris (Bodlein £25, 314pp)  IF YOU sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit today, spare a moment to ponder the centuries – in some cases, millennia – of trial and error and human ingenuity which have gone into developing your snack.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Constance Craig Smith

THIS IS ASSISTED DYING by Stefanie Green (Scribner £20, 304pp)On her way home from work, Dr Stefanie Green was in an upbeat mood, singing along to the radio ‘and kind of dancing while driving’. Moments later she pulled over and sat in her car, shocked at her behaviour. What would her friends and family say, she wondered, if they knew that ‘I helped someone to die today, and I feel really great about it’?

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Constance Craig Smith

Parallel Lives by Iain Pears: From Russia, with love - to an old EtonianBy CONSTANCE CRAIG SMITH Published: 19:01 EDT, 24 April 2025 | Updated: 19:01 EDT, 24 April 2025 PARALLEL LIVES by Iain Pears (William Collins £18.99, 288pp)When Francis Haskell and Larissa Salmina met in Venice in the summer of 1962, no one could have predicted that these two very different people were destined for each other.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Constance Craig Smith

Of Thorn & Briar by Paul Lamb: Meet Instagram's hunky hedgelayer heartthrobBy CONSTANCE CRAIG SMITH Published: 20:02 EDT, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 20:02 EDT, 27 March 2025 Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer by Paul Lamb (Simon & Schuster £20, 304pp)Since the 1950s, around 118,000 miles of Britain’s hedgerows have been lost, gobbled up as fields disappeared to make way for new houses and roads.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Constance Craig Smith

The Slow Road North by Rosie Schaap (Mariner £20, 260pp)  Like many couples, Rosie Schaap and her husband Frank had a Valentine’s Day tradition: they would read aloud to each other from Chaucer’s poem The Parliament Of Fowls, which contains one of the earliest references to February 14 being a special day for lovers. Valentine’s Day 2010 was no different, except that Frank was in hospital in New York and they both knew he didn’t have long to live.