I’m a bit lonely. There, I’ve said it. The world doesn’t seem to have ended as a result, and I do feel a bit lighter for having admitted it. It probably sounds ridiculous for me, a fifty-year-old mum

A letter, a book and two paintings by Tracey Emin; right, Ruth Fairlight’s copy of The Colossus Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe were both in their twenties when they met in a bookshop in Nottingham.

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Creativity thrives in community. Let it connect you to yourself and others

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...