I didn’t think it was ever going to happen. My mum, sister and I had decided to go away on…

I didn’t think it was ever going to happen. My mum, sister and I had decided to go away on…

The summer heatwave was reaching its peak when I visited Barnsley House – and what a relief it was to…

As the school holidays arrive, and swimming trunks and sunscreen are packed with vigour, Larry takes an alternative tack and heads into…

Louise Beech is a powerhouse of creativity. Anyone who had listened to her audiobook Daffodils (reviewed here) will know of…

In this turbulent year, nature has provided both a place of respite and a lifeline to normality. With so much…

Louise Beech is a powerhouse of creativity. Anyone who had listened to her audiobook Daffodils (reviewed here) will know of…

Don Quixote is a ballet with which Carlos Acosta has strong links. His dazzling performance of Basilio’s variations in the…

Opera Holland Park’s final offering in its summer season is a firecracker. Gilbert and Sullivan might have fallen out of…

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s Chasing Hares is, make no bones about it, a political play. It won Theatre Uncut’s Political Playwriting Prize…

In Three Men In A Boat – perhaps the ur-text when it comes to charming, quaint Thameside towns and villages…

In Three Men In A Boat – perhaps the ur-text when it comes to charming, quaint Thameside towns and villages…

A chocolate box pretty restaurant if ever there was one, the baby blue No. Fifty Cheyne in Chelsea, originally a…

It’s summertime again and so also time to enjoy the wonderful – even too wonderful currently – English weather. You…

It’s summertime again and so also time to enjoy the wonderful – even too wonderful currently – English weather. You…