The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë

HEART THE LOVER BY LILY KING This year marks 250 years since Jane Austen was born so it’s fitting that love stories are having an epic moment. The current fiction boom (sales are up 18% on last year)

Today I am sitting at a well-scrubbed kitchen table in a Cotswold kitchen, warmed by a Delft blue Rayburn. My hostess offers me a slice of fruitcake baked by her husband – baking is something Bill has

Broadcaster and author Clare Balding shares the reads that have been her escape and inspiration

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

by Lucy Jane Wood (£20, HB, Pan Macmillan) Annie Wildwood works tirelessly to be the perfect witch. As well as running the Celestial Bakehouse, she goes above and beyond to please everyone around her,