Jewel Joanna's real gem of a treasure trove

JOANNA Lumley's Book of Treasures is exactly what it promises: a joyful, sparkling collection of quotations, musings and snippets gathered over a lifetime by a national treasure.

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It's a slim volume - 176 pages - but it feels like a chest of jewels, each page offering something gleaming, comforting or funny.

It isn't a memoir or a traditional anthology. More like being invited to leaf through Lumley's private writing, the ones she's been filling for decades with things to make her think, laugh or pause.