There are water snakes recovering from heatstroke in the bath, scorpions on the dining table, a pair of mischievous magpies making off with lunch and an extraordinary assembly of geckos and glow-worms ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Edition X of the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet 2021, in association with Victoria Memorial Hall and The Telegraph, hosted a magical evening of remembering Gerald Durrell and his Corfu Trilogy with ...

Penguin Modern Classics will publish Gerald Durrell’s "beloved" accounts of his childhood spent in Corfu to mark the centenary of his birth. The Corfu trilogy – which comprises My Family and Other ...

A long, long time ago, in an age before literature festivals, I met a man who wrote books. I was just a wide-eyed schoolboy in Kolkata and I don’t recall anything the portly pink-faced man with ...

Tuesday 7th January 2025, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, the world-renowned author and naturalist Gerald Durrell. To mark the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A spell of indisposition with dental issues led me to rediscover my first idol. The person I worshipped and ...

Fifty years since the opening of Gerald Durrell's wildlife conservation trust, his legacy forges on. Jessamy Calkin celebrates the work of the pioneering naturalist and author. By Jessamy Calkin 10 ...

There was widespread gloom among publishers at what seemed a foregone conclusion – that WHSmith would buy the UK bookstore operation of Borders, put on sale by its US parent. While Smith's has ...