The Old Parsonage, Oxford
The clichés of Oxford as a city of dreaming spires, punting and ivy-clad college quads…
Author Alex Larman
Brighton – A Culinary Odyssey
The city of Brighton is a strange contradiction in terms. On the one hand, it…
Galvin Bistrot De Luxe
‘Would you like to come and visit Galvin Bistrot?’ the email said. I’m not made…
Angels in America
‘Greetings, prophet. The great work has begun.’ Tony Kushner’s epic two-part drama, written in 1992,…
Forty Years On
‘Alan Bennett’ and ‘school’ are likely to be two topics that crop up in close…
Hawksmoor Borough
The cry went out round SE1. ‘Hawksmoor’s coming to our part of town’. Excitement could…
48 Hours in…Florence
Of all Italy’s major cities, Florence is the hardest to describe to the uninitiated. Rome…
One Warwick Park
‘The problem with Tunbridge Wells’, quoth the one who knows best, ‘is that it’s always…
Twelfth Night at the National Theatre
Of all Shakespeare’s comedies, Twelfth Night offers the greatest challenges, and rewards, for a new…
Sheraton Grand London, Park Lane
What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it would seem. Arriving at the recently renovated,…
London Marriott County Hall
It’s not every day – especially not every cold November day – that you walk…