BOOK OF THE WEEK

PETER KERR’s One Mallorcan summer, published by summersdale at £9.99, is the story of a family who several decades ago decided to decamp from scotland to Majorca in the hope of making a living from growing oranges.

I defy anyone to read this book and not immediately start trawling the internet in search of affordable places to buy in the Balearics.

Paradise, it seems, really is just a budget flight away.