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Lifting the veil on life in a 21st-century monastery

We unravel one of London’s best-kept secrets — a Carmelite monastery in the middle of a North Kensington square.

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Feel good factor: Jo Malone Kohdo Night Treatment

Every spring, Jo Malone launches its limited edition Kohdo collection in stores.

Imran Khan: Why I believe America created the Pakistan Taliban

Imran Khan is more than just a cricketing ladykiller who was married to Goldsmith heiress Jemima Khan. He now dedicates his life to politics and is passionate about Pakistan and the war on terror — so isn’t it time people took him seriously?

Westminster Bridge - the new hot spot

WB1 (Westminster Bridge, to ordinary mortals) is rapidly becoming the interesting new London postcode.

Zoe Margolis: Casual sex and the London single girl

The secret life of Zoe Margolis was the much read anonymous blog and bestseller, Girl With a One Track Mind. Then she was outed and lost her job. So what happened next?

Get a life at The Grove

Hotel review: Liz Hoggard stays in The Grove near Rickmansworth, where she was offered the chance to do a "best life" retreat run by life coach Nina Grunfeld

Ellie Goulding's secret past

Ellie Goulding opens up to Liz Hoggard about her dysfunctional childhood and the older lover who saved her

Katie Davies: My life married to Alan Davies, London’s funniest man

She is author of an award-winning hamster murder mystery, a wife to Alan Davies and a mother. So what’s it like being the real Mrs Jonathan Creek? Liz Hoggard finds out.

Perfumistas are the new cool-hunters

Londoners don’t want to smell like everyone else. Liz Hoggard seeks hashish and hemlock for a new high of artisan fragrances.

Rufus Wainwright: Opera saved my life

As his first opera opens at Sadler’s Wells, Rufus Wainwright is thankful that he had time to share the passion that sustains him with his mother, folk legend Kate McGarrigle, before her death last month.

Let them eat cake: Kate Middleton to share baking passion with brother James

Kate Middleton could join London’s cake boom by going into business with her brother James. He tells Liz Hoggard about his passion for baking.

Maria Grachvogel on how to cope with first-time pregnancy

As well as preparing for London Fashion Week, Maria Grachvogel, 41, has been coping with first-time pregnancy. She tells Liz Hoggard how she keeps in shape.

Anouchka Grose - The shrink who believes in love

As a love analyst, writer and ‘realistic-romantic’, Anouchka Grose is well placed to advise us on the pitfalls of passion, as Liz Hoggard reports

Join the eclair set

After the trend for handmade macaroons and cup cakes, 2010 is arguably the year of the eclair. Liz Hoggard feeds her inner child

Lauretta Summerscales: the rising star of English ballet

Fans are already asking whether the baby of the English National Ballet, who has just triumphed in her first principal role, might be the new Darcey Bussell, says Liz Hoggard

Your fashion starter for ten: specialist pub quizzes

The capital’s whizz-kids are beating the recession blues by setting up their own specialist pub quizzes. Liz Hoggard reports

From Rocha with love

John Rocha's latest collection near Dover Street Market celebrates 25 years in fashion. He tells Liz Hoggard why he's not posh enough for Mayfair

Proust had his madeleines — Curly Wurlys do it for me

Chocolate is the great psychological divide in adulthood - no wonder Kraft’s £12 billion takeover of Cadbury is causing such angst

The new NME girl who dared take on the might of Simon Cowell

Interviewing Simon Cowell held no terrors for the music magazine’s first female editor, she tells Liz Hoggard.

Ditch your trainers and run barefoot

He comes from a long line of shoemakers but Galahad Clark tells Liz Hoggard that ditching your trainers is one of the best things you can do for your feet

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