After a long summer organising activities for the children I was seized by a strong impulse to organise something for myself, and so I booked tickets to visit Charleston, home of Virginia Woolf’s sister, the artist Vanessa Bell and home-away-from-home for various members of the Bloomsbury Group. In fact visiting requires a bit of advance […]

Love self-help books? Love book club? Here’s where the two intersect, ten books that fall under the personal development sphere (some more obliquely than others) that are tried and tested for brilliant book club discussion. Ten personal development books for book club 1. Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Understanding the […]

Everyone has their favourite bit of seaside. I like mine with an added dash of bleakness, and for that there’s no finer place than the Suffolk coast. One branch of my family hails from here and I’ve been holidaying in the seaside town of Southwold my whole life, but I never get tired of it. […]