The best intentions

BORN on Christmas Day in 1899, Humphrey DeForest Bogart had a privileged upbringing. The son of a cardiopulmonary surgeon and a commercial illustrator, he lived with his parents and two younger sister

The perils of the repair shop One Saturday ...

It’s not the big birthdays ending with 0 that throw us – it’s the 365 days before them, says Clare Bowie. Here, she reflects on life ‘on the cusp’

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RIDICULOUS that after all this time it should be a shock. What had she expected? That he would appear one day on her doorstep with that oh-so-familiar crooked grin to reclaim her? To tell her that he’

At 16, I was doing my first year of A levels at a minor public school in Oxfordshire. I’d done pretty well in my GCSEs – I got one ‘B’, which disappointed me, but it was biology and I don’t feel it’s