Old City, New Tricks: Lisbon’s Endless Temptations
Three years on from a six-month stint living in Lisbon, Estella Shardlow returns to find the city blooming — with new…
Oxford, Collected
The Oxford Collection has spent four decades building hotels and restaurants which could belong nowhere else. Douglas Blyde checks into…
Spa of the Month: Low Wood Bay, Windermere
The only Lowood I had previously come across was the terrible school the young Jane Eyre attends as a kind…
Old City, New Tricks: Lisbon’s Endless Temptations
Three years on from a six-month stint living in Lisbon, Estella Shardlow returns to find the city blooming — with new…
Gauguin and Polynesia
A meticulously researched biography cuts through decades of controversy to ask what Gauguin’s paintings actually show us about the Polynesia…
Richard Dadd: A Much-Respected Murderer
Feted as a Royal Academy prodigy, then locked away for stabbing his own father to death, Richard Dadd spent the…
Gauguin and Polynesia
A meticulously researched biography cuts through decades of controversy to ask what Gauguin’s paintings actually show us about the Polynesia…
Northern Ballet: Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister was a bold, ambitious, unapologetic Yorkshire woman outwardly making a place for herself in a man’s world and…
Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne
Richard Strauss’ ‘opera within an opera’ Ariadne auf Naxos, has at its heart an audacious reconciliation of high art with low…
The Truth
“I just want to figure out what kind of play we’re in…to figure out whether it’s a comedy or a…
Bao, Bargains and Rooftops: A Tale of Three Japans
From the carnivorous theatre of Flesh and Buns to the bargain elegance of Inko Nito and the rooftop refinement of…
Bao, Bargains and Rooftops: A Tale of Three Japans
From the carnivorous theatre of Flesh and Buns to the bargain elegance of Inko Nito and the rooftop refinement of…
Bao, Bargains and Rooftops: A Tale of Three Japans
From the carnivorous theatre of Flesh and Buns to the bargain elegance of Inko Nito and the rooftop refinement of…
Fashion Becomes Tea at The Kensington Town House
As National Afternoon Tea Week gets underway, Rebecca Buchanan pulls up a chair at The Kensington Hotel’s Town House to sample…
Fashion Becomes Tea at The Kensington Town House
As National Afternoon Tea Week gets underway, Rebecca Buchanan pulls up a chair at The Kensington Hotel’s Town House to sample…