British
The National Garden Scheme is the perfect antidote to Chelsea’s vanity
Shortly before the New Gardens Organiser at the National Garden Scheme (NGS) is due to arrive at our farmhouse in…
The Crimean War spelt the end of hymns to heroism and glory
Writing from opposite sides, Leo Tolstoy and William Howard Russell exposed the horror of conditions in a quagmire war which seemed to have no meaning
Prisoners of conscience
Thomas Keneally has constructed his latest novel around a framework of true events: the mass break-out of Japanese PoWs from…
