Peculiar advice

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist

John Hoyland never misses a chance to scour a second-hand bookshop for old gardening books, not only for advice, but for a glimpse into past gardening lives

Fabulous selection of Knitting and Crochet patterns every week in “The People’s Friend”! I love the recent Fair Isle slipcover made in Alpaca Wool. I wish I knew someone who could knit it for me. Such

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

The secrets of a dishwasher repairman

Jonathan Clark links the decline of popular aphorisms to a disappearing shared moral code