GRAEME SMITH

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Herald View: Sad end for stately queen built with pride on Clyde

DOWN the slip with a rattle of chains rolled the queen of the seas as 30,000 spectators cheered. Fifty years ago yesterday, Queen Elizabeth launched the QE2 from John Brown’s shipyard in Clydebank. While the monarch modestly named the vessel “Queen Elizabeth the Second”, the ship became known as the QE2 (the numerical 2 rather than royal II said by some to have assuaged sensibilities in the nation that built her – where the reigning monarch is, as it were, QE1).

Books of the Week

This week's bookcase includes reviews of New Boy by Tracy Chevalier, Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami, and Jane Austen At Home by Lucy Worsley.

Are the risks of hrt really outweighed by benefits?

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can have a hugely beneficial effect on unpleasant menopause symptoms, reducing hot flushes, night sweats and mood swings, and improving quality of life for many of the one million UK women who take it.

Everyday recipes from a Michelin star chef

Atul Kochhar is reminiscing about the day he became the first Indian chef to be awarded the gold standard for culinary expertise – a Michelin star – as head chef at Tamarind in 2001.

A man for all seasons

He has designed the most ambitious award-winning gardens and is a pioneer of natural landscapes and landforms, a wild flower expert and a seasoned plantsman and columnist.

THE BOOKCASE

This week's bookcase includes reviews of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Ice by Lalline Paul, These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper and The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu by Charlie English.

Books of the Week

This week's bookcase includes reviews of How To Be A Grown-up by Daisy Buchanan; The Thirst by Jo Nesbo, and Hamlet, Globe To Globe: Taking Shakespeare To Every Country In The World by Dominic Dromgoole.

Books of the Week

This week's bookcase includes reviews of debut short story collection Swimmer Among The Stars by Kanishk Tharoor, Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor and gardening columnist Alys Fowler's Hidden Nature

Great British recipes

William Sitwell is adamant: "British food culture is the greatest food culture in the world."