Literary walks

There is perhaps no author quite so connected to their home county as Hardy is to Dorset. A tour of Hardy Country must start at the quintessentially perfect thatched cottage where he was born in 1840,

Tricia Guild, the founder of Designers Guild, on why Cornwall’s rugged landscape holds a special place in her heart

Revisit the past with these nostalgic holidays

“ I met Charles Dickens today, except he had clearly been so busy working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood that he had fallen asleep, so I didn’t get to speak to him!” I laughingly proclaimed to Ro when

LAST night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .” This is surely one of the most evocatively memorable opening lines to any novel ever written. Personally, I’ve been dreaming all too long of return

This year marks the 625th anniversary of The Canterbury Tales author – and “father of English literature” – Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. He penned this classic, about a merry band of medieval pilgrims te