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  • Silk and the city

    It’s whispering down the catwalk at Somerset House for London Fashion Week. It’s caressed by every tourist nipping into Liberty’s for an iconic paisley scarf. …

  • Naturally 7 @ Barbican Centre

    Surprisingly, my husband manages to fit in a job other than me. He works for AEG, proud owner of the O2 and other impressively echoey …

  • Sport stories

    If you were searching for a pastime that was the opposite of reading, you might well hit on sport. Burying your nose in a book …

  • Future Folk

    It was an unlikely pairing. You wouldn’t expect the sort of edgy, urban international hipsters that attend SXSW – the music, film, and technology festival …

  • Literary Resolutions

    “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions”, wrote Mark Twain in Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise on January 1, 1863. “Next week you can …

  • In Residence: Madonna del Prato

    Perhaps the recession makes us eager to feel we’re getting more for our money. Perhaps James Cameron, Peter Jackson and the other masters of the …

  • Speakeasy season

    The envelope was black, the address handwritten in silver calligraphy. Inside nestled a small, shining graphite key on a thin black cord. This was, the …

  • Demystifying writing

    How does a novel happen?

    In theory, it is a pretty simple process. First find something to say. Then – to paraphrase Coleridge – put …

  • Wearable art

    Investment pieces: we all know the theory. On a personal level, the interminable recession is forcing us to reassess our throwaway attitude to fashion. As …

  • The Reluctant Re-Reader

    I have always found the desire to re-read novels bewildering. I do it, obviously. I can’t deny that it’s a pleasurable and fruitful exercise. But …