Culture

We all love to escape to a different world sometimes and there's no better way to do that than with a great page-turner book. Whether it's a thriller or a detective story, a romance novel or a...

A gorgeous coffee-table book makes a lovely Christmas present for the friend or family member who loves art, architecture, photography, travel and fashion. From royal history to glorious...

With the holidays quickly approaching, a guilty-pleasure read is an essential, whether we're travelling somewhere or staying home. So it's the perfect time to give the gift of gossip, also...

Considering so much of our holiday season is either spent cooking, preparing food or eating, we can't think of a more appropriate (or welcome) gift than a cookery book packed with recipes to...

On first glance this intricate sculpture of the sea god Poseidon looks like it has been carved from some sort of ivory or wax. In fact the sculpture is entirely made from the humble banana -...

What comes to your mind when you think of modern art? Is it graffiti-inspired street pieces like Bansky's daring designs or the hugely expensive diamond skull created by Damien Hirst? How...

Best-selling author, journalist and self-confessed reading junkie, Dorothy Koomson, talks us through five of the books that have shaped the course of her life. The Garden Gang series by...

Sorab Shroff explains how The Buddha of Suburbia encouraged him to choose life. "My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost. I am often considered to be a funny kind...

Young men need heroes. Robert Jordan, the stoic, hard-drinking protagonist of 'For Whom The Bells Tolls' was not the saviour I was looking for, rather the figure who introduced me to him. It...

Port Eliot is incredibly civilised. I have been to a lot of boutique festivals – from Latitude to End of the Road – and this was the most genteel of them all. I would imagine that...