Fearless in the face of battle

It was during a drunken conversation in Berlin that the young Harry Patterson first stumbled upon the story which would one day inspire him to write one of the truly great, popular thrillers of the 20

Jazz Turner reflects on her recent record-setting around Britain voyage and her decision to turn down a hospice bed and ‘get out into the English Channel and turn right’

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

THE timing of it! How unfair can it be?” Gilly Hyde clamped her hands to the sides of her head in despair, and immediately regretted it. She had spent an hour on her hair that morning. She took her ha

Best known for his graphic portrayal of sexual relationships within a working-class setting, the name of DH Lawrence remains synonymous with the scandal surrounding his most controversial novel, Lady

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