Hello! Recommendations this week include a bar DEDICATED to the Martini, a grief-studded novel set in Tuscany, an essential inflatable, a newsletter to get you writing and the ultimate it bag for that mid-winter holiday you've hopefully booked. Eat up, sweetpeas.

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