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 ...

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 ...

American naturalist Lee McGeorge Durrell's visit to Kolkata has rekindled the city's romance with her husband and India-born British naturalist Gerald Malcolm Durrell whose books have enthralled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...