A few of my favourite things

Born in Swaziland, in 1957, Richard E.Grant moved to London in 1982 to pursue a career in acting. He was cast in Bruce Robinson's cult classic Withnail and I in 1986 and has starred in everything from Dracula and Gosford Park to Game of Thrones. He launched his unisex perfume house, Jack, in 2014, and published his bestselling memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness, in 2022. Mr Grant divides his time between London and the Cotswolds and is the co-host of Hotels with History, a new podcast exploring the world’s most renowned hotels.

- Amie Eizabeth White

I've religiously read this book once a year ever since I was a boy, transfixed by Lewis Carroll's dreamscape, ironically illustrated by John Tenniel. It's been my unofficial guide to the English class system, sense of humour and uniquely British imagination—simultaneously domestic, down to earth, anarchic and utterly bonkers. Bl