It was unrealistic, I suppose, to expect a flood of hereditary knowledge to come surging in the day we moved on to our farm. For centuries, my ancestors were Shropshire farmers and, growing up in ...

Rakib Hasan was also the assistant editor of the children's mystery magazine Rahasya Patrika, a monthly publication from Seba ...

Jersey Zoo closed earlier after a capybara escaped from its enclosure. Staff noticed the large rodent called Tango was missing while doing their morning checks at about 08:00 BST. The zoo reopened at ...

A special edition stamp set to mark the 100th birthday of the late conservationist Gerald Durrell has been issued by Jersey Post. Mr Durrell opened Jersey Zoo in 1959 and established a charitable ...

Valery Panyushkin is an award-winning Russian journalist who began this book about the fate of ordinary civilians in the immediate wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The result is a collage of ...

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 ...

The appeal of the recent television series The Durrells was immense, resulting in the production of four series between 2016 and 2019 of the addictive drama on the life of the Durrell family on ...

We have a selection of fabulous prizes up for grabs: a Mackey Wicklow medium weight turnout rug, winter care products from Absorbine, feed and a goody bag from Dengie, plus a great horsey novel to ...

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 ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded ...

The words “much-loved classic” are overused, but they truly apply to Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals. This charming 1956 memoir of living in Corfu as a boy, developing his interest in ...