Hugh Grant

With new indie retailers opening every year, London is home to hundreds of bookshops, including hidden gems and famous-for-a-reason spots.Whether you're looking to lose yourself in Jane Austen's Georgian England or join Hercule Poirot on…

Love Actually is one of the most loved and replayed Christmas movies of all time. It follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month…

YOUR STARTER FOR TEN1. Which play by William Shakespeare is the only one of his to be set in Austria? It’s supposedly a comedy, but is now cited as one of the ‘problem plays’, i.e. it’s not funny.2. Which novelist, screenwriter and…

The Unlikely Duke: Memoirs of an Eclectic Lifeby Harry Beaufort(Hodder & Stoughton £25, 320 pp)Well, not that unlikely a Duke as Harry Beaufort was born to the role — prep school, Eton and agricultural college (and a family tree…

Some say London is a cycling utopia, criss-crossed with so many segregated cycle lanes that drivers are squeezed to a halt on a daily basis.Others complain that provision for cyclists is woeful and that to pedal your way across the…