The Sea House by Esther Freud, reviewed by Lizzie Hammond

The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily assembles the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an absence in her own life that may not be filled by simply going home.

Food writer Susie Anderson reviews 'Something for the Weekend' by Ruth Watson

Suffolk hotelier Ruth Watson of the Crown and Castle Hotel and Trinity Bistro, Orford, is an award winning food writer and presenter of The Hotel Inspector on Five. Her recent venture into the pub world (she and her husband, David Watson, are now running The King’s Head pub at Orford, where the new bar meals are extremely appetising and scrumptious) has not dampened her ardour for writing.

If you’ve always fancied mushroom hunting but haven’t a clue how or where to start, a new book by Southwold-based mushroom expert Peter Jordan is definitely one to get your hands on…

Popping down to the supermarket to buy a punnet of commercially-farmed, pre-cleaned button mushrooms in no way compares to foraging for wild varieties in a beautiful Suffolk forest, but you’d be unwise to think that mushroom hunting is the sort of hobby you can partake in without doing a fair amount of reading up on the subject beforehand.

Ship's Angel by Bridget Crowley, reviewed by Lizzie Hammond