nuns

What cinema gets wrong about nuns

8 August 2026 9:00 am

Why are filmmakers so interested in nuns? They’ve been exploring the subject for more than a century, which might seem…

Are you enjoying a ‘nun girl summer’?

18 July 2026 9:00 am

The nuns were wrapping up their night prayer when I entered the chapel at Tyburn Convent. I couldn’t see them…

The secret child: Love Forms, by Claire Adam, reviewed

21 June 2025 9:00 am

An anguished Trinidadian divorcée decides after 40 years to search for the daughter she was forced as a teenager to give up for adoption

Low life

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Although I was ten minutes early, Vernon was there ahead of me, framed in the ancient chapel doorway, chatting up…

Low life

2 April 2016 9:00 am

While I was in Provence, my hostess and I went out one day for a walk in the hills. We…