Raku ceramicist Catherine Lucktaylor talks about finding inspiration on the Cornish coast

After leaving the coast for the city, Caro Giles reflects on anchoring herself and her children to a new kind of water

The author Alex Preston spent his childhood dreaming of Greece, but it wasn’t until he visited Corfu that he found what he was looking for – along with the inspiration for his latest novel

BRUSHING wind-whipped hair from her eyes, Catriona crouched, scanning the colourful smorgasbord of stones, seaweed and shells on the shoreline. There! Half-hidden under an empty limpet. A cowrie. Gent

After visiting Ireland on a painting holiday, Sue and Mark Gilkey decided to take the plunge and buy a traditional cottage there with an inspiring coastal setting, and sweeping views of the sea

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo