A derelict florist’s shop of diminutive proportions has been given a new lease of life as a small, but perfectly formed, country home full of characterful charm

Renowned for illustrating the ‘Famous Five’ series, the mercurial, motorcar-obsessed Eileen Soper lived a bucolic and eccentric life, discovers Ian Morton

NOTHING said “home” like the kitchen of Nant-y-Bri Farm at breakfast time. Delicious frying pan smells hung heavy in the air and the scrape of cutlery on willow pattern plates indicated the family had

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Jane Fallon, the award-winning TV producer turned bestselling novelist shares the books she can’t put down

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