From a living room trapeze to thinking pink (a lot), the home of interiors blogger Emily Murray is full of playful ideas to steal. Here’s how… The Family Emily is the author of interiors book Pink House Living and lives in Forest Hill, Southeast London, with her husband Euan and sons Oscar, ten, and Zac, … Read more
Croissants, yoghurts, full English breakfasts, gooseberry compotes with crème fraiche, Champagne, beef cheek in red wine, cod roulade… the menu for first-class Eurostar passengers – overseen by superchef Raymond Blanc – is amazing. Well, normally amazing. Right now in first class – or ‘business premier’ in the Eurostar-vernacular – it amounts to cookies (very nice … Read more
If your lottery numbers have come in – or you just want to dream – then cast your eyes over these magnificent mansions. They all feature in The Luxury Property Show’s 2020/21 online ‘lookbook’ of opulent properties across the world that are for sale right now. The jaw-dropping listing includes a glamorous £25.7million ($32million) oceanfront home … Read more
Amazing videos reveal one of Britain’s best ‘office’ views: Cab footage lets viewers experience a Pendolino journey from London to Glasgow from the driver’s point of view The footage is split into an eight-part series called Tales From The Tracks The vignettes were made using a cab camera on the 12.10pm from Euston It took … Read more
Great British boltholes: Hipsters want to be part of the inn crowd at The Crown, a 17th-century Oxfordshire pub in a quintessential English village The Crown is an ‘inn lover’s heaven’ located in the village of Church Enstone Each country-chic room has a different layout with digital radios and TVs It’s popular with hipsters using … Read more
CONTEMPORARY By Sara Lawrence for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 QUEEN BEE by Jane Fallon (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) QUEEN BEE by Jane Fallon (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) Fallon is a fabulously engaging writer who excels at counter-intuitive plot lines, creates believable protagonists who … Read more
From Amanda Craig’s pacy drama to The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, David Trueba’s latest and a sinuous novel by Nicola Maye Goldberg, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson Published: 09:32 BST, 28 June 2020 | Updated: 09:32 BST, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would crime writer Karin Slaughter take to a desert island? Karin Slaughter is currently reading Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass House She would take The Complete Harry Potter Series to a desert island Crime writer said Orlando by Virginia Woolf left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 BST, 18 June 2020 | … Read more
‘It’s a thrill to hear live music again’ – Laura Marling’s intimate lockdown gig at the Union Chapel gives a glimmer of hope to the whole arts world By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 13 June 2020 Laura Marling … Read more
Wanderland by Jini Reddy is a funny and touching book charting her year spent traversing the landscapes of Britain in search of magic By Kathryn Hughes Published: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 June 2020 Wanderland Jini Reddy … Read more