CULTURE
An extract from City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes, and its People by Jessica Wärnberg.
An eggsplanation of the festival of Easter.
Wet feet, pisco sours, and the wonders of nature in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
How It Started… How It's Going. Alexander Larman writes his way into a trilogy about the Windsor family.
Pete Langman raises an eyebrow at Sky’s sexy TV ‘history’ antics.
A poem for International Women’s Day by Josa Keyes.
“Our highly-trained cormorant chorus represents the very best of Brexit Britain.”
On the sanctity of Britain’s blue plaque scheme—and the delightful hoaxes it inspires.
A bibliophile confesses.
UPDATED DAILY from December 1 through to December 24, Emigre writers on the books they would be happy to receive for Christmas.
A near miss on honeymoon in Sri Lanka.
An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.
Tim Cooper pays tribute to fellow punk, Shane MacGowan.
How I would bend the ear of the late Terry Venables.
How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dominic Hilton recalls his giddy days in “Camelot”.
An extract from Jack Grimwood’s forthcoming thriller, Arctic Sun—out this month from Penguin Michael Joseph.
An extract from James Morrison’s new novel Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another.
Twenty-two truly dismal puns, from O A Colpetty.