The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca
The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper
Is it true that …
Is it true that … houseplants freshen the air in our homes and offices?
If you want to seriously oxygenate your rooms with greenery, you’re going to need a lot of space
Forty years of the Phantom of the Opera - the show that wouldn’t die: ‘People come back to hear the impossible’
My search for the perfect Italian aperitivo in Verona
Book of the day
Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne review – a quirky journey through the afterlife of invention
Tom Gauld on some new faces in the deep dark wood – cartoon
See past the prickles …
Flashback
John Cooper Clarke looks back: ‘Getting older sucks – it’s marginally better than being dead’
The punk poet on his heroin years, dressing like Ronnie Wood, and achieving his boyhood ambition
‘We have been dispossessed’: Nick Hayes on land rights and a peaceful revolution at the real Toad Hall
The co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign and author of The Book of Trespass discusses the Oxfordshire riverside community he calls home and how Hardwick Hall has been taken back by the people