Dear Readers . . .

Welcome to our new Special, which you may notice looks a little different! I’m delighted to say that, in response to reader feedback, we’ve made the decision to increase the size of all our Specials to 100 pages, allowing us to fit in even more of the quality stories and features you love.

Alongside an amazing 20 original short stories in every issue, you’ll find new regular features by Laura Brown and Wendy Graham as well as cookery, craft, puzzles, travel and so much more.

After several years without an increase, we’ve also made the difficult decision to raise our cover price to £3.99. I hope you’ll agree that, with the extra pages and new content we’ve included, the Special still represents excellent value for money. I do hope you enjoy reading it, and please let me know what you think!