Ahead of her new tour, Michaela Strachan chats to Closer about four decades in the spotlight, her lifelong love of nature and feeling at home in her body

IT began as an unremarkable day. Leaves falling into mud on the riverbank, the sun shy behind ink splodged clouds. Jays screeching in the oakwood. I stopped. Mammal tracks drew my eyes. I knelt. These

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The clue is in the title: who owns whom? It is one of the many unsettling questions at the heart of this compelling and disconcerting book. Charles Foster – barrister, Oxford fellow, vet and the write

Michael Bond and Paddington Bear

Lou stirred her hot chocolate. Her half-hearted diet wasn’t going well, or rather, had never truly started. It felt impossible in this chilly weather to contemplate salads and bottled water instead of