I celebrated the New Year in York with some dear friends from my university days. They live in the centre of the city, with an unbelievable view of the imposing Gothic cathedral York Minster from…
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For British Children’s author Frances Hardinge, it’s the ‘magic key to the vault where [her] brain is kept’. Bear Grylls has a cup of it ‘halfway up a rock face’. And George Orwell said that…
It’s cold outside and I’m delighted. As I’m writing this, the sun is pouring through my kitchen window on one of those crisp winter’s days that I love about my country. It’s my first winter…
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