A swimming holiday on the Turkish coast
If you’re used to swimming lengths at your local pool, the idea of covering several kilometres a day at sea might seem “daunting”. But on...
Show Me the Bodies by Peter Apps
“Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears,” “This one did.” Peter Apps, the deputy editor of Inside...
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
The latest history of General Electric runs more than 700 pages, and “there is an air of finality to it,” said Kaushik Viswanath in Fast...
Crowning glory
On 2 June 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned during a three-hour-long ceremony of pomp, pageantry and almost 1000-year-old tradition at Westminster Abbey. She was...
If Anyone Deserves The Death Penalty It’s Him
THE EARLY hours of Sundays are quiet in small towns pretty much all over the world. It’s a time for washing the car, having breakfast...
A horseback safari by the Maasai Mara
Most of us rarely if ever spend time in proximity with wild animals, and the average African safari holiday preserves that distance. Get out of...
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
From its title alone, you might assume that Bob Dylan’s new book would be a “treatise on the art and craft of songwriting”, But Dylan...
THE 5 Best journeys in Britain
Given how heavily indented its coastline is, how rugged and wild the mountains and valleys are, and that jaw-dropping views await around every green corner,...
England’s last boy king
Edward VI was a palefaced, sickly child. Just nine years old when declared king in 1547, he would be a puppet of powerful courtiers and...
What’s Going On The Rubell Museum
“Opening a new contemporary art museum in a city not known for contemporary art would at first seem foolhardy, if not downright reckless,” said Robin...