Actors Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) are all gracing our screens this Christmas in the film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s…
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Stretch and I are renovating an apartment in Manhattan that began life as a squash court. If only we were squash players we could have just moved in with our…
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Five toasts, five people, one lifetime. Maurice Hannigan’s lifetime. An 84-old man with hairy ears and a voice that can melt icebergs, Hannigan pulls up a stool at the bar…
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One thing that I really admired about Liese O’Halloran Schwarz’s page-turner of a novel The Possible World is the story itself. How did Schwarz make this imaginative tale spanning a…
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I caught up with English author and biographer Claire Tomalin about her best-selling memoir A Life of My Own. I loved it and can’t recommend it highly enough. Still working, the…
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I am not a science person. It was always my worst subject at school. Even the easy classes were hard. So it was with a slight unease that I picked…
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Mark Birley’s timing was always impeccable. After a decade or so of post-war gloom, in 1963 London was ready to party, and the party was at 44 Berkeley Street. At…
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One of the nice things about my move to the States is reconnecting with old friends. Take Anne Hardy. Anne lived in London in the nineties where she was the…
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When I lived in London full-time I used to love going to London Art Studies’ monthly talks about upcoming exhibitions. The speakers not only were experts in their field, but…
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I caught up with Miami-born, Paris-based author Pamela Druckerman, following the release of her latest book There Are No Grown-Ups. Tired of grasping a decade’s point, until she’s squandered it, Druckerman…
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