A dark tale of a marital stand-off

From the Apennine Mountains to ‘the end of the land’ at Cape Finisterre, Louis D Hall and his horse Sasha trekked untrodden partisan paths across four mountain ranges. Guided by strangers and nature’s clues, it was fulfilment of a childhood dream inspired by Don Quixote . Here, the author shares two extracts that give a glimpse into this wilder way of life

I never sailed the Amazon and I never reached Brazil Oh, I’d love to roll to Rio, some day before I’m old! (Songs of Rudyard Kipling) We’d been to Rio de Janeiro once before and many years earlier, by

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

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A love-hate relationship recalled by France’s ‘greatest living writer’