Francesca Angelini

Caroline Elton always knew that when her mother died the responsibility for caring for her disabled brother, Lionel, would pass to her. She tells Francesca Angelini how she found room for him in her already busy family life

Wine tasting, horse riding and wild hikes await in Santa Ynez Valley’s 235 manicured vineyards just a two-hour drive from LA. Donkey security detail included

Modern houses don’t have to be rubbish, says Peter Barber, a designer with a radical solution to Britain’s housing crisis: homes built from bricks on real streets. He invites Francesca Angelini into his London studio

The Pulitzer-winning author of The Sympathizer grapples with a traumatic past shaped by war and exile

Online searches for advice on ending a marriage peak at this time of year. How much does a divorce cost in 2024 — and what’s the best way to do it?

I am a sucker for a kitchen gadget. Spiralizers, NutriBullets, George Foreman grills, even a niche AeroPress coffee-maker: I’ve got them all. But until last we

James Runcie’s account of losing his wife to MND is vivid, bleak — and wonderful

Katherine Heiny issues a warning almost as soon as she pops up on Zoom from her home in Bethesda, Maryland. “My son is going to come home from work soon, and ou

There’s a scene in this new comedy of manners by Kevin Kwan, the author of Crazy Rich Asians, in which Charlotte Barclay implores her cousin Lucie Churchill, our protagonist, to think of her social standing. “My good name? You sound as if we’re living in the Edwardian age!” Lucie responds. It’s a g

Linda Grant’s fiction teems with immigrants. Her best-known book, the Orange-prizewinning When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), told the story of a Jewish hairdresser who left London for Palestine in the 1940s. Hungarian Jews in England were the exiles at the centre of the Man Booker-shortlisted The