Confessions of a cat-sitter

Actor Miriam Margolyes shares her lifelong love of creatures great and small

Writer and former doctor Adam Kay shares the reads that cheer him up and calm him down

Presenter and author Clare Balding, 54, lives in London with her wife

Ben Machell never believed in the supernatural. But when he started to investigate the work of a renowned parapsychologist, he found himself drawn into a strange new world

You would be hard pressed to pick Billie the whippet-poodle out in a crowd of his canine contemporaries. Like many young dogs, he is full of beans and capable of melting hearts even when up to mischie

‘I was reading like I did when I was a kid – for comfort and pleasure’