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Tring in Hertfordshire was recently named as one of the UK's best places to live by Country Life magazine.

All sorts of animals have been kept as pets over the centuries. We know of sparrows in Catullus and John Skelton. There is a badger with a collar in a fresco by Signorelli – probably not much more biddable than the lobster Gerard de Nerval supposedly took for walks in Paris. The word ‘puss’ seems

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book Catland tells the story of how we learned to love pusskins. Content warning: contains Kipling, Edward Lear, some stinking carts of offal, and the troubled life and weird art of the extraordinary Louis Wain.

Perhaps the biggest star of Freshwater Bay Isle of Wight, back in the day, was Alfred Lord Tennyson who resided at Farringford House.

After a steady trickle of larger venues announcing their individual seasons, the floodgates have opened.