Entertainment & Reviews

A successful novelist from Exeter has just published her very own love story – and she hopes it will inspire others to find wisdom, peace and happiness.

Mother-of-two Catherine Harman wrote two gripping thrillers after relocating to Devon from her native Lancashire at the turn of the century to buy and run a convenience store.

The former computer programmer’s new surroundings inspired her to write the sensational five-star novels, What the Butler Saw and the sequel Rupert’s Unravelling.

Now, more than a year on, Catherine turned her attentions to telling her own...

Paintings, ceramics, sculpture and glass will be exhibited in Torquay this August.

From August 25 to 31 fingerpaintings by Saskia Skoric will hang alongside nautical paintings by Len Murrell and landscapes and seascapes by Lynda Kettle, former vice president of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and chair of Sidmouth Art Society. There will be glass pictures by Sue Purser Hope (chair of the Contemporary Glass Society), sculpture by Nicola Axe and pottery by Andrew Matheson RBSA. This exciting exhibition, organised by Creative Coverage, takes place at Artizan Gallery, 7...

Dartmoor artist Shirley Kirkcaldy is celebrating after her work has been selected to be represented by a new Devon gallery.

The Tidal Gallery, which opens at Victoria Place, The Promenade, Kingsbridge, on July 22 will be exhibiting eight of Shirley’s latest landscapes and seascapes.

“It is pleasing that galleries are increasingly showing interest in my work,” says Shirley, who was recently featured artist in Dartmoor and Devon Life magazines.

Shirley’s work is informed by what she experiences when in the landscape – an intuitive response to a place and time. Working...

A true revolutionary veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has spent the last 30 years taking Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme making 50,000 deliveries a week.

On Sunday 1st July, he’ll be talking about the remarkable story behind Riverford and his life in organic food and farming with presenter Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Guy decided to sell direct to customers through the now iconic Riverford veg box after being poorly treated by unscrupulous supermarket buyers and wholesalers in the...