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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gerald Durrell was a man of paradise. Paradise found, paradise lost, paradise regained, paradise destroyed, paradise dreamed in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...