As landlords’ enclosures of villages and commonages during England’s industrial revolution drove landless countrymen into the maws of the poet William Blake’s “dark Satanic mills”, a romantic nostalgia for the countryside began to grow.

Monkeys, it turns out, have a highly developed understanding of the concept of fairness, writes Tommy Martin.

Higher Gossip

Sue Leonard finds there is more than a hint of autobiography in Douglas Kennedy’s tenth novel, which could possibly be his finest work.

The Age of Absurdity