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In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (above) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world. "You are right: the end of
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Plus An Exclusive Excerpt From Next Year's Novel
In Celebration Of My Dad's Birthday: A Short Account Of A Walk My Family And I Took A Few Years Ago
A Pagan Sort Of Walk In England's Western Borderlands, A Wartime Hero, And The Unavoidable Interface Between Walking And Writing
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Back when I lived on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, a little over a decade ago, there was a running joke amongst people who knew me that my house was a kind of after-hours youth club for cats. I had four of my own at the time, which some might claim is
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Last week, on the day my latest novel was published, I did something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: I closed my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Since I deleted my Twitter/X account over a year ago and don’t do any other social media, this
I was digging through some old photos at my mum and dad’s house a couple of years ago and found this one of my primary school class. I’m the small fry on the back row in the blue dungarees, being strangled, next to my friend Edward, who is
A little about 1983, a brief extract, and me reading another one aloud...
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Autumn is possibly the time of year that makes me most furious when I’m in the countryside. It’s coming again soon, worse luck, and as always it will be disgusting and messy. Look at the state of this path I found a few autumns ago in Gloucestershire, a
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If you’d like to support my writing by taking a out a cut-price full annual subscription to my page, I will send you signed hardbacks of my books Villager and Notebook, wherever you happen to be on the planet. I also have a small selection of my mum’s
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And The Book That Emerged From Them
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Subscribe now Judith Sparrow: Has anyone spotted a horse rug on their travels? Purple, with red stripes. Last seen up near Hood Gate. Any information appreciated. My Thomas is getting cold. Terence Black: Fantastic fish and chips tonight at the Stonemason’s Arms. Just right. Mushy peas. Diana Wilson: I