Chawton cottage

To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we look into the life of this literary genius…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged more than 250 years later – and we’re as obsessed with the author as ever

DIARY By Jonathan Wright and Danny Bird HISTORY COOKBOOK Tomato soup cake CITIES Marrakech, Morocco Few places are more synonymous with Jane Austen than Bath – though it’s fair to say that she had mix

After a love-at-first-sight viewing, novelist Rudyard Kipling found peace and sanctuary within the walls of this Jacobean house, located in the wooded landscape of the Sussex Weald

Iris climbed down from the donkey cart that had given her a lift from Penzance station, being careful not to ladder her best stockings, and walked up the narrow lane to Nantolven Farm. There was no si

There is perhaps no author quite so connected to their home county as Hardy is to Dorset. A tour of Hardy Country must start at the quintessentially perfect thatched cottage where he was born in 1840,