The piece I’d never part with

From the Apennine Mountains to ‘the end of the land’ at Cape Finisterre, Louis D Hall and his horse Sasha trekked untrodden partisan paths across four mountain ranges. Guided by strangers and nature’s clues, it was fulfilment of a childhood dream inspired by Don Quixote . Here, the author shares two extracts that give a glimpse into this wilder way of life

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Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

Exhibition of the week William Nicholson Pallant House ...

Some of us might plan our holidays around where we can find the perfect bowl of busiate alla norma (that would be Palermo, Sicily) or the best khachapuri (Tbilisi, Georgia). If you’re sartorially incl