A well-off sea captain has lost part of his bitter divorce battle with his equestrian ex-wife over a £10 million fleet of ships. While they were together Captain Paul Anthony Crowther, 54, and his horse-loving wife Caroline lived a life of luxury in a sprawling multimillion-pound manor house in the East Sussex countryside with an illustrious … Read more
HISTORY Coffeeland : A History By Augustine Sedgewick (Allen Lane £25, 448 pp) Have you ever scanned the blizzard of drinks on offer at your nearest Costa and thought, ‘I just want a cup of coffee’? If so, then maybe this book — more than 350 pages of dense political history of the erogenous little … Read more
A plastic children’s toy has sparked a war amongst the Married At First Sight cast. Stacey Hampton lashed out at her ex-‘husband’, Michael Goonan, and his new girlfriend, KC Osborne, on Monday after the pair uploaded a TikTok video in which they played with her son’s Nerf gun. The 26-year-old law graduate said she had left … Read more
HISTORY THE ZOOKEEPERS’ WAR by J.W. Mohnhaupt (S&S £18.99, 272 pp) Here’s a tale from the Cold War that’s little-known but deserves not to be. After World War II, as you know, Berlin was split into two. West Berlin was under the control of the Allies, while East Berlin was under the Soviet yoke, and an … Read more
The former editor of British Vogue has said she was left feeling ‘persona non grata’ after her successor took over. Alexandra Shulman, 62, who was at the helm of the fashion magazine for 25 years, said a bitterness had emerged when her successor Edward Enninful, 48, took over in 2017. In her latest book, Clothes … … Read more