The countdown is on! Our colourful and uplifting new issue is on sale tomorrow, the 30th, available to buy in supermarkets near you.

Featuring Saira Khan, you don’t want to miss interviews with Ruby Hammer, Ariane Poole, Ray Mears and more. Keep scrolling for a sneak peek.

On the cover

“I don’t need to prove myself anymore.”

Says Saira Khan, this month’s cover star. Looking at her career as a TV presenter, wellness guru and entrepreneur, Saira tells Gemma Calvert why she feels as if life has started at 50, breaking barriers and being her authentic  self — always.

Fashion

We help you style your white hot summer. Think you can’t wear head-to-toe white? It’s easy to carry off if you have the right accessories and shoes to match. A simple splash of colour makes all the difference.

Food & Drink

Our beloved food expert, Valentina Harris, looks at the many wonders of honey, taking you on a journey from bee to hive to jar.

Enjoy sweet, sticky, natural honey as the main ingredient in a selection of her favourite refreshing recipes, too.

Fashion & Beauty

“I can’t live without…”

Our favourite influencers, experts and famous faces share their go-to beauty products — the lipsticks, face creams and setting sprays that they would be lost without.

Meet the eco-fashionistas

Great Reads

Hen Corner, your local farm in the heart of the city.

A honey maker, bread baker, vegetable grower and animal lover, Sara Ward tells Mairi Mulhern how she turned her Victorian terrace house into an urban farm and why she thinks everyone else should do the same.

“Make-up is not vanity, it is art”

Ariane Poole has partied with Jane Seymour, eaten lunch with Paul McCartney and gone food shopping with Cilla Black. The Canadian make-up artist and business owner leads Mairi Mulhern through her life in make-up — a world full of glitz, glamour and ‘pinch me’ moments.

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