Out of africa

The BBC Proms changed the face of classical music when ‘the people’s festival’ was launched in 1895. The perennially popular event features some of the nation’s favourite tunes from composers inspired by the countryside of the British Isles. Here Kitty Corrigan selects her top ten

The Critic Books

Wordplay, queer themes and witty experimentation in the novels of a literary original

The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie

A narrow suburban road, framed on one side by a row of modestly proportioned terraced houses, and on the other by a railway line where trains trundled regularly to and from West Croydon Station. Puffs

● ONE MORNING IN 2007 I KNOCKED at ...