Penning Poison By Emily Cockayne Who among us wasn’t morbidly fascinated by the anonymous email sent the day before to all the guests attending George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ wedding? Some of us might even have gone to the trouble of finding the epistle online, and relished the allegations of…

The Philosophy of Cocktails By Jane Peyton There’s an ineffable quality to cocktails – probably because, as Jane Peyton neatly observes, ‘they are the liquid definition of the idiom “greater than the sum of its parts”’. I rarely drink them. Not because I don’t love them but really because they’re…

Giles & Mary: Country Life by Giles Wood and Mary Killen Giles Wood and Mary Killen are best known for their appearances on Gogglebox, which have gained them a dose of fame and an affectionate following. In real life, Wood is a rather good landscape painter and Killen an agony…