Best yorkshire life

Brought up in Kildwick near Skipton, Clare Teal is an award-winning jazz vocalist and long-time Radio 2 and Jazz FM broadcaster

It’s the cosy season of sitting down with a good book. Here, authors heading for Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival this month share their writing styles

I’ve just returned from three magical days in the Lake District. Craggy mountains, mist over the fells, and the gentle hum of a Herdwick sheep or two. I stayed near Hill Top, once home to Beatrix Pott

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

Fantasy author JRR Tolkien’s mythological Middle Earth takes inspiration from a number of places in Gloucestershire and the West Midlands. Tolkien frequently visited the Forest of Dean and its tempera

PENNY LANCASTER GETS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH HER HOME