The actor and writer Malachi Kirby was born in London in 1989. He enrolled in a drama group at the Battersea Arts Centre aged 14 and later attended London’s Identity School of Acting. He was shortlisted for outstanding newcomer at the 2011 Evening Standard theatre awards, for Mogadishu. On TV he has appeared in the…
Marie Olsson Nylander is a self-taught interior decorator, but won’t be pinned down to any single label – she is also an antique dealer, collector, stylist and podcaster. As well as a mother of four. Marie defines her style as “boho wild”, and there is perhaps no better definition of it than this home full…
Bridget Jones is back and once again blazing a new path, this time as a widow. In Mad About the Boy, our eternally chaotic but lovable everywoman is navigating single parenthood, dating apps and grief. But unlike most widows in romcoms, she’s not here to wither away in a beige cardigan, politely mourning until society…
If foreign politics, environmental collapse and the impending takeover of the world by machines are leaving you glum, psychologists have identified a strategy that could help bolster your resilience: “lemonading”. Rather than wallowing in an acerbic soup of despair, researchers have discovered that people with high levels of playfulness may be better equipped to cope…
I arrive early to meet Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian-American writer, feminist, author of Americanah. Her home, just outside Baltimore, looks Scandinavian somehow amid the snow crust and woodland. Adichie is mid-photoshoot, but the stylist shows me through to the kitchen, telling me to help myself to roast chicken and rice. At a desk in…
The questions 1 Who was the younger son of Richard IV and Gertrude of Flanders?2 What is the UK’s largest zoo?3 Which border is marked by a 6m-wide clearing called the Slash?4 Winning aged 13, who is Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist?5 What was last held on the Thames in 1814?6 Which bird can beat its…