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Sep 30, 2026
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Sep 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lydia Bell

    Sense of Place: Marlon James on the complexities of his hometown, Kingston (opens the original)

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    Books not only inspire where we travel: in the best ones, landscape becomes a character all of its own. In our Sense of Place series, authors talk about the importance of location in their work. In Marlon James' new novel, The Disappearers, the Booker winner lays bare the complexities of his hometown, Kingston, Jamaica “When you live in a country – and that was Freudian, calling Kingston a country – when you live in a city like Kingston, after a while you realise that there are four, five, six K

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Lydia Bell

    I flew Cathay Pacific’s Aria Suite Business Class – here’s what makes it worth the upgrade (opens the original)

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    Cathay upped the ante on its premium cabins when it launched its all-new Aria Suite Business Class on daily flights from Heathrow to Hong Kong at the end of 2024. This was part of a seven-year, almost £10bn mega plan by Cathay Pacific to invest heavily in its fleet, cabins and lounges. This summer I travelled from Hong Kong to London in the Aria Suite on the return leg of a mega three-week trip from London to Perth via Hong Kong, and back from Sydney via Hong Kong to London. During the various

  3. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Lydia Bell

    Why I ignored the calendar for my daughter's first safari – then saw a lesser-known side to the Lower Zambezi (opens the original)

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    After 24 hours of travel and an arrival at ochre-vermillion dusk by boat down the Zambezi, a Noah’s flood world, the first thing my 14-year-old daughter notices are the sounds: a bush that thrums with the natter of birds. The fluting refrain of the ring-necked dove, a burst of Morse code percussion; and the glassy whistle of the tropical boubou. “It’s loud, but I like it,” she says, as she lies down on her under-canvas bed in our first camp, Kutali. We fall asleep in the pitch black list

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