Book yourself a blind-date

ARE you stuck in a tired old relationship? Endlessly returning to the same old chick-lit or thriller favourites? What you need is a blind date with a book.

The trend started in Australia with Elizabeth’s Bookshop, spread to the U.S. and has now reached these shores.

Katy Lowe runs the Blind Date Book Company (theblinddatebookcompany.co.uk) in Shrewsbury, selling novels online in plain, brown paper, tied up with ribbon, so all you know about each one is a brief teaser such as ‘Wartime. Tragic. Tender’, ‘New Era. London. Change’ and ‘Honour. Prejudice. Soldier.’

Katy says: ‘Take a leap of faith. You never know, you could end up falling in love!’.