There are approximately 10,000 medieval churches in Britain, and Andrew Ziminski, a stonemason and restorer, has visited more than half of them. Churches of shorter pedigree are not wholly absent in ...

Philip Hoare’s exhilarating new book often feels like a print by William Blake. In the centre stands Blake himself, with arms outspread, his pale blue eyes meeting our gaze, his body radiating light ...

Guadalupe Nettel’s new collection of short stories, The Accidentals, beautifully translated by Rosalind Harvey, begins with ...