Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez Fourth Estate £16.99/HarperCollins $30, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Fortunately it has a great cast. The next afternoon, I meet Ashwien Sankholkar in another café. He is a celebrated investigative journalist in Vienna....
...It is the only habitable and rentable castle on Loch Ness, and offers activities including fishing, falconry and archery in the 500 acres of gardens, woodland and wildflower meadows....
...But there are also simple scenes of daily life: young women lazing under the city’s colonnades, men in suits basking in the sun or reading the newspaper at cafés in Piazza della Signoria....
...Himself a venerable figure, now 70, he has established a tribute evening at London’s Jazz Café to his mercurial musical hero as an annual event....
...For restaurants, Chez Albert in the old fishing port is great for seafood....
...The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota Harvill Secker £18.99, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century, by Barbara Emerson, Hurst £35/$54.99, 544 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The taut three-parter was as imbued with class consciousness as you’d expect from writer Shane Meadows, but also given to farce and metaphysical musings....
...As the authors admit, humans are also deeply flawed and capable of great stupidity and perverse cruelty....
...The steak lies prone on a great wet bed of this. I should also like to....
...If you want great food, great music and great ambience, go here....
...Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham Riverrun £18.99/Hogarth $28 , 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Setting out to write a family memoir, Rachel Cockerell stumbled upon the life of her great-grandfather David Jochelmann....
...She is the great-grandchild of a cult leader whom she never met. She lives “in a house with ten rooms and reside[s] in only nine of them”....
...Artists have devised events in abandoned silver mines (Los Angeles-based Cauleen Smith) or in meadows on local ranches (Thailand-born, New York-based Korakrit Arunanondchai)....
...He plays with the Authors XI Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...For the children tasked with designing this garden, that has meant a shady woodland, flower-filled mini-meadows and a wetland with oversized bog plants – set around a handbuilt den....
...Why The nearly 12 acres of grounds comprise a walled garden, a wild-flower meadow and a rose garden. The outbuildings include a spa, art studios and a large party barn....
...Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker Allen Lane £25, 384 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe...
...the market. ember.com Durslade Christmas Foraged Farm Box, £85My pick of hampers this year includes this box from Durslade farm shop in Somerset, which includes crab apple Christmas cake, greengage and meadow...
...Those hopes were boosted in March when Great British Nuclear, the government nuclear development arm, purchased the site at Wylfa....
...to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of a bluish-green meadow...
...Uncomfortable truths about the historical origin of many great fortunes — and the beloved sites they funded — aroused considerable ire....
...Franklin’s expedition was, of course, a part of the great British imperial project, and Bradley is careful to keep Gore as a man of his time, interrogating our relationship to the past....
International Edition