The 60's may have ended in sexual liberation but a teenage pregnancy was a family scourge and shame in the early 60's as described by Jane Hayward in this honest and compelling memoir. The mothers in the home prepared boxes filled with baby clothes for the adoptive parents to take home with the mothers babies. 

www.janehayward.blog 

#Radiogorgeous #memoir

Gaby Koppel, Reparation with Donna Freed. 

Gaby's protagonist Elizabeth is at a crossroads as are many of the characters in the book. Which paths they take forms the structure of the book but it is the difficult relationship with her mother, Aranca, a Hungarian survivor and refugee which fuels her emotions. Gaby drew on her own parents in this honest and ambitious look at what war leaves behind. 

The book is published by Honno, who publish Welsh women authors! 

@Gabykoppel #RadioGorgeous #novel #Reparation www.honno.co.uk

Suzanne Duckett is prolific. A typical Aries in that she does what she says (she delivers), her CV reads like a PhD bibliography. I've known her for over ten years and she's done it again with this very well researched and accessible book on bathing, which she's written with fellow author Georgina Rodgers.

I've long been an advocate of thalassotherapy, which is mainstream health in much of continental Europe, but oddly not here (perhaps our government hasn't found a way to aggressively tax it yet), and this book is long overdue in making us realise the healing qualities of water, something our ancestors have long known through the ages. 

          Bathe encourages you to turn your attention to preventative wellness, offering scientific evidence on how bathing helps with everything from menopause and puberty (raging hormones) to insomnia, to focus and imagination (designer Tom Ford allegedly takes five a day!). You also learn things like why you get wrinkly if you stay in the bath too long (I usually do).          

         One suggestion is that we were originally all lizards and we get wrinkly so we able to grip our way out of the bath. Knew it. I'm a lizard. Lizard of not, Bathe offers an informed, lovingly illustrated insight into why you should take at least a bath a day, even if you don't feel dirty.

Bathe is available all good book shops and amazon. 

#RadioGorgeous #bathe  #Wellbeing

Sarit Packer, Honey & Co.: at home, Middle Eastern recipes from our kitchen with Donna Freed

Exuberance personified, Sarit and Itamar's food is packed with as much personality as flavour. Honey & Co., Honey & Spice and Honey & Smoke are their three locations where they serve the food they love in a variety of styles and settings. The cookbook encompasses food from their home kitchen, from fancy to fuss free. Their home is your home. 

www.honeyandco.co.uk  @honeyandco #RadioGorgeous

The UK’s largest rare bookseller, this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, and is pleased to present In Her Own Words: Works by Exceptional Women, an exhibition of its first catalogue focused solely on women. The catalogue contains some 180 remarkable rare books, manuscripts and ephemera and has been created in recognition of the growth of interest in works by women. It includes items by pivotal figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Marie Curie and Millicent Fawcett as well as seeking to highlight the work of lesser-known women who were instrumental in pushing legal, intellectual and physical boundaries: trail-blazing activists, mathematicians, economists, classicists, travellers, mountaineers and suffragettes. Josephine meets the catalogues producers Theodora Robinson and Emma Walshe of Peter Harrington rare books. 

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/recent-catalogues/

#RadioGorgeous #Books #IWD2019

Victoria Pearson chats to Becky James lead singer of the alternative metal band 'Soul Desire' about vocal training, confidence and the ideas behind Soul Desire's music. 

Tweet: @SoulDesireNoise

FB: https://www.facebook.com/pg/souldesirenoise/about/

#GorgeousEntertainment #RadioGorgeous #Metal

Cookery writer, chef, food stylist, editor and presenter Jo Pratt's latest cookbook invites you to explore more fish. Fish can be tricky: we don't always know how to cook it or what fish to use. Jo to the rescue. As with all her books and recipes, these are straight forward with easy to duplicate cooking methods to make fish more accessible. Go on…put a little fishy on your dishy.

www.jo-pratt.com 

@cookwithjopratt 

#RadioGorgeous #Food

Today my guest on gorgeous llives is one of the worlds leading interior designers. Famous for her country house look her clients include royalty, rockstars, top hotels and the super rich. For many decades she has owned her own interiors shop on one of Londons most chic streets in London, Walton Street in Chelsea.  She also produces and designs has her own lines in wallpaper, fabric and furnishings, she is the fabulous NINA CAMPBELL .

https://shop.ninacampbell.com/

Insta: ninacampbellltd

#GorgeousLives #Interiors #RadioGorgeous 

If you liked 'The Secret' you will love this book. Dr Tara Swart's book The Source, it has more rationality and scientific analysis behind it. Tara is as you may imagine as a neuroscientist, highly  intelligent, yet she has written a book which we can all have access to; a book about on how to apply cognitive science with amazing results to our everyday lives. 

https://www.taraswart.com/

Twitter: @TaraSwart 

#RadioGorgeous #wellbeing

The Radio Gorgeous Kitchen visits Heathrow Terminal 2's The Gorgeous Kitchen with Jo Pratt and Donna Freed

Jo Pratt, cookery writer, cook, food stylist & presenter is one of four female chefs who preside over Heathrow Terminal 2's The Gorgeous Kitchen. Jo works with Caroline Artiss, Sophie Michell and Gee Charman to make flying a spectacular experience from the start. She explains the unique experience of running an airport restaurant. 

The Gorgeous Kitchen also has a cookbook so that you can create their fresh creations. They also have a loyalty card so pick one up and fly early and often! 

www.thegorgeouskitchen.com @TGKHeathrowT2

#RadioGorgeous #food