This week’s dream: a little corner of Blighty ...

The writer Daphne du Maurier was fascinated by the English country house. Jeremy Musson explores her evocation of these buildings with the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice

This week’s dream: wonder and melancholy in eastern Turkey ...

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Rosie Paterson visits Mustique, the Caribbean island that has beguiled and baffled for more than half a century, to find out what the future holds

An old man lives at the bottom of my garden. His name is Robert Barkus, or Bakehouse, or Bagust. Nobody is quite sure. But I often sense him around when I’m gardening, and I’ve found out a fair bit ab