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From Virginia Woolf and her circle to Kate Moss’s Vogue shoot, the unconventional Sussex farmhouse has captured imaginations across the decades

For the first time in years, I have a week by myself. I can have an affair, write a great novel, eat all the best biscuits

Kicking off our new monthly series about emotions in literature, Sophie Ratcliffe finds the best literary descriptions of hopefulness

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process

The writer on the long gestation of Locks – his debut novel set in 90s Merseyside – his work in prisons and what Virginia Woolf has taught him

The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing Bee champion. Now in its ninth series, the backstories of this year’s contestants show how sewing often provides an intimate, material connection…

In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions