mrs miniver's daughter

I got this most readable biography from the library after hearing Artemis Cooper speak at Kew Literary Festival a few weeks ago. I read it...

Guess who? Well, no, I wouldn't have guessed either. It's Picasso. ( Self-portrait with Wig, 1900) I stole an hour this afterno...

Perhaps a bit too sentimental for me - but the friend I went with enjoyed a good blub - and it's ages since I've been to a real...

Visited the famous giant pumpkin on Saturday, grown at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex from a pumpkin seed that cost £1250; if it's a bit pa...

I went to a lovely little exhibition at Compton Verney last week of watercolours commissioned as souvenirs of Queen Victoria's visit...

What a lovely cover ( At the Piano , by Harold Knight, from Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne). But how disappointing to discov...

I like Anne-Marie Duff - heavens, for once in my life I'd booked weeks in advance - but her new play Oil at the Almeida is a bit ...