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PALERMO TO TAORMINA From £1,750 (orient-express.com) BRUSSELS TO PRAGUE The European Sleeper train is the cool new kid on the block, debuting with its direct route from Brussels to Berlin last summer. From 25 March, it’s extending the line throu

Rejoice: an all-star cast (including Kristen Wiig and Laura Dern) is here to save our weekday evenings with a big-budget comedy that’s as stylish as it is funny. The story of a social climber in Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Royale is appointment viewing

Poyums We’ve swapped scrolling before bed with a few pages of this collection every night, and we’re sure it’s given us better sleep and sweeter dreams. A funny, fiercely feminist debut by Scottish poet Len Pennie, it includes letters written to her

Chickpeas with Halloumi and Seeded Honey Alix Walker, editor “I am already a fully subscribed member of the Anna Jones fan club. Her first cookbook, 2014’s A Modern Way To Eat, spearheaded a cultural shift towards a love and appreciation of veg as t

I BECAME a mother-daughter therapist DURING lockdown. I’d studied integrative psychotherapy for three years, but it didn’t feel like enough: all the texts were written by old white men and didn’t reflect what my clients were experiencing. Not only we

While I had been to the Tuscan capital of Florence on a girls’ holiday, I’d never got to explore what the region is really famous for: the rolling hills and vineyards, delicately crumbling villas and tall cypress trees that will never not remind me o

“You can have it all” was the soundtrack to my teenage dream to move to London, edit a magazine and have a big family. The catchphrase spoke loudly to a generation of young girls who watched TV shows about successful, shoe-buying career women in New

I am obsessed with the stat that claims more people fear public speaking than dying. As Jerry Seinfeld famously quipped: “This means, to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” I, for one, c

The handbag of the season is the day clutch; a squishy, leather style that can be carried under an arm while wearing elegant tailoring or elevated weekend looks. A style in a primary hue (the palette of the season) will make a serious statement with

There was a sugary-sweet, romantic trend on the s/s 2024 catwalks. Libby Page, market director at Net-A-Porter, explains: “It’s a new, undone way of dressing that isn’t overtly girly but modern and refined.” The trend includes pastel dresses and fabr

Whether it’s ditching oat milk or worrying about the Instagram biochemists who are warning us about the ‘dangers’ of fruit, a lot of people are obsessed with their blood sugar these days. This hysteria reached a crescendo earlier this month when a Fr

Being an adult is… constantly having to decide what’s for dinner. What are you worried about currently? What to have for dinner. If someone could reveal your future, would you want to know it? If it would help me decide what to have for dinner, sure.

The Chain by Chimene Suleyman In 2017, acclaimed writer Chimene Suleyman was pregnant. She did not want an abortion nor did she feel ready to become a mother; her loving boyfriend was dealing with his own mother dying. But on a snowy day in New

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“You have to make time for yourself”. How many times has someone given you that piece of advice? My mum would use that as her copy and paste response to every problem (or even slight inconvenience) I sent her way. My ankle, busted after a bad twist a