biographies

Saved from certain death at Auschwitz – by playing the cello

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Exploring the relationship between the cello and its player, Kate Kennedy describes how Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s musical gift enabled her to survive not just one but two Nazi death camps

Bisexuality was the Bloomsbury norm

11 June 2022 9:00 am

It’s been a century since the heyday of the Bloomsbury group, and now Nino Strachey, a descendant of one of…

Whodunits shouldn’t be dismissed as a guilty pleasure

28 May 2022 9:00 am

What a weird lot crime writers are. I don’t come to this conclusion lightly, since I’m a crime writer myself,…

A load of oddballs: the eccentricities of past cricketing heroes

3 July 2021 9:00 am

For reasons I can’t seem to remember, I have read an awful lot of cricketing histories. The dullest, by a…