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The series has been hailed by many fans and critics and publications, with Time magazine listed it in its list of the 100 ...
Sara Byrne is covering her first war and, after a slow start, things are finally picking up. Sweating in her flak jacket and ...
Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital's traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a ...
What do an enigmatic Caped Crusader, a sopping-wet Mr Darcy and Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell have in common? Believe it or not, British country houses.
For Muriel Spark the process was simple. First, the novelist said, “I write the title, and then I write my name.” Then, she ...
Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...
THESE days, it seems every celebrity wants to put their name to a book club: among the rich and famous, they are as common as ...
Reason's 2025 travel issue takes seriously the idea that the right to roam is inseparable from the right to speak, to work, ...
Jonathan Swift, Evelyn Waugh and Christmas True faith rejoices in knowing that the Life we celebrate at the stable in Bethlehem is the real answer to death.
It was written in 1930, by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh in his travel book Labels. Plus ça change ...
I had always adored books and had been brought up in a house packed to the rafters with them – and, much to my partner's ...