The Best Things: The joyous Sunday Times bestseller to hug your heart

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In this funny, revealing and heart-warming travelogue, the two friends walk in the footsteps of Meryl Streep’s French Lieutenant’s Woman, stoke up the engine on a steam train ride through Enid Blyton country and having worked up a thirst Mel and Martin sample Dorset’s finest cider on a farm overlooking magical Corfe Castle.

In interviews, Giedroyc has spoken of her desire to turn The Best Things into a “Leatherhead Trilogy”. Giedroyc grew up in Leatherhead and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a member of the Footlights comedy club.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. We talked to her about her ferocious devotion to Jean Valjean, the funny book she always gives as a gift and the book so scary she'd only read it when other people were in the room.

Writing style Love Untold has a plot, but its real joy is in how Jones digs her fingernails into decades of complicated family history. Over on the island, they make a thrilling discovery, which leads them deep into the dungeons of Kirrin Castle on a dangerous adventure.Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Successful pivot from quizshow sidekick to bestselling author … Richard Osman. Mel has also touched on mental health of Sally and her family; which I found interesting because each one is suffering in some way and has been written with care and shows a light at the end of the tunnel.

The Parker family are a chaotic, loveable bunch''I zipped through it with many an accompanying titter, the occasional chortle and the odd unladylike snort. They are also familiar as the hosts of Channel 4's Late Lunch and as the stars of a number of TV commercials. The former spy who belongs to the Thursday Murder Club is Elizabeth, not Joyce as an earlier version said. Frank has make a mint but when he suddenly losses everything, their home, savings and their belongings that are worth the bailiffs taking. This time, a local news presenter investigating VAT fraud is run off the road and over the edge of a cliff on the A20 near Dover.This is incredibly evident here, primarily in the acknowledgments, which are written in the style of a letter to his granny.

In particular Sally, who, while starting out as a slightly unlikable trophy housewife, quickly blossoms into a full-blown Giedroyc analogue, with spunk and pep and let’s-smile-through-the-bad-times determination. They have presented many TV shows such as multi Bafta-winning The Great British Bake Off (BBC) and Light Lunch (Channel 4).Both Gary’s elderly neighbour and the mystery woman are more than happy to veer off on long, absurd tangents about oddly worded minutiae. Fans of The Great British Bake Off, especially fans who have just started to notice how wobbly the show has got without her.