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This week’s dream: tackling Moby-Dick at ...

“ I met Charles Dickens today, except he had clearly been so busy working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood that he had fallen asleep, so I didn’t get to speak to him!” I laughingly proclaimed to Ro when

Tricia Guild, the founder of Designers Guild, on why Cornwall’s rugged landscape holds a special place in her heart

The village shop that sold pick ‘n’ mix sweets. A cowpat-strewn country lane with occasional glimpses of Glastonbury Tor. Leaping the wooden stile into Butterfly Wood. It’s over 30 years since I last

Whatever your reading style, there’s a feast of books, authors and reading to soak up at upcoming literary festivals and events in Yorkshire

Scotland’s largest city marks a big birthday