Queasiness trails me like a long white veil, until my husband tempts me into the garden

Aged 13, we were unleashed to do as we pleased in the countryside. This may be a bit too ooh la la for some

Anna Trench’s winning graphic novel Florrie uncovers the story of her great-aunt's sporting adventures

Fifty years after Spielberg’s film gripped audiences, many fans – like me – are still afraid to go into the water

Part memoir, part herbal history, Craig Thompson’s new graphic novel is a towering achievement

Ridiculous yet compulsive, How Not to Be a Political Wife spares Michael Gove while laying into Cameron’s cronies

The deferred pleasure of waiting for their magazine to drop through the letterbox was a childhood job

The disaster response expert says rather than being resilient, what’s important is being ready

With talented counterfeiters at the top of their game, how on earth do you spot a fake? And does it really matter anyway?

There’s an uncanny closeness between biographer Frances Wilson and her wildly brilliant subject

Inspired by the loneliness of lockdown, Sami Tamimi’s first solo cookbook, Boustany, updates the Palestinian classics of his childhood

The noise of vehicles being washed, dried and polished isn’t just a pain in the suburbs… it can also kill you

The bestselling graphic memoirist tackles capitalism in her latest book, but its stars are a lovable cast of well-meaning liberals – and a Maga type or two. She talks Trump, reality TV, and why she would like to move to Moominland

The book that made the chef a star still has much to teach us, especially about being a customer

Told via the static images of comic-book panels, a film pioneer’s biography becomes truly cinematic

Francesca Wade’s elegantly written two-part study of Gertrude Stein takes her far more seriously than her muddled prose warrants

Frank Auerbach completed his final painting just five weeks before his death aged 93 last year. As an exhibition opens in Berlin, his son, Jake, talks about his father and the film he has made about him

Rachel Cooke on the French film that celebrates the power of a good cheese

The actor’s latest role is in the gory Titus Andronicus. ‘It’s not really a lunchtime play,’ he says