Festive Gift Guide 2014
With some degree of alarm Christmas is upon us for another year already, and so…
Author Jerome
Britten’s War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall
Far from diminishing in its significance as the years pass it’s something of a morbid…
In the Footsteps of Fermor
Many who have read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s seminal travelogue have dreamed of retracing his walk…
The Henley Literary Festival 2014
Now in its sixth year, the Henley Literary Festival opens this week, with attendance records…
The Country Life Fair
If your idea of an English summer is synonymous with birdsong, bounding labradors and Ben…
Vegetables at the Sofitel
In the ever-competitive world of fine dining it’s not uncommon for restaurants to think of…
An Interview with Conductor Michael Hofstetter
German Conductor Michael Hofstetter makes his return to English National Opera this autumn in Nicholas…
Sir Richard Attenborough
“I can’t write, I can’t paint, I don’t compose.” RIP Baron Sir Richard Attenborough, CBE;…
The Great Grouse Run 2014
Simon Davis, the chef at The Yew Tree in Highclere, celebrates the Glorious 12th -…
The Chelsea Flower Show and The Goring
Casting your eye to the garden on these glorious May days? Thinking it’s time to…
Breakfast with Charles
Aah, breakfast. Is there a better meal? Particularly breakfast at the weekend, eh? In this…
Paris of the Alps
Following Larry’s trip to Switzerland in the footsteps of Thomas Cook’s first conducted tour, we a proud to offer an extract from Diccon Bewes’s Slow Train to Switzerland, in which he retraced the entire journey of the Cook-Morrell party…