The Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Jeffers – best known for his picture books – tells Johanna Derry why his books appeal to children and adults alike, what connects science and art, and how he’s taking to fatherhood…
Author: Johanna Derry
Mornings
What’s it like to be a milkman, delivering milk through the night while everyone else sleeps? We ask Paul Lough, the manager of Parker Dairies in Walthamstow – who tells us about 2am starts, helping the elderly and the beauty of the milk float…
Mornings
Cereal Killer Cafe – and the brothers, Alan and Gary Keery, who run it – were blasted by the press for being hipsters leading the gentrification of east London, by selling bowls of cereal for £4.50. Business is now booming. We talk bright pink milk and Weetabix origins with Alan…
Mornings
“We’re lucky enough to have freshly baked croissants and other buttery delights in the bakery every morning. And there’s nothing better than a newly fried doughnut.” We talk baking with early riser and co-founder of BreadAhead Bakery, Justin Gellatly…
Mornings
“I like the flowers to dance and sing. I like to look at a bouquet and see the flowers as if they’ve got their hands in the air, twirling round and dancing.” Nik Southern, founder of Grace and Thorn, talks early trips to the flower market and a gothic Giles Deacon fashion show…
Wellbeing
It seems the zeitgeist has shifted from mindfulness to hygge this autumn, with a series of books celebrating the Danish way of living. But lighting candles aside, what exactly does hygge involve and how will it make us happier? Johanna Derry finds out…
Family
For the third interview in our Moving Abroad series, Johanna Derry asks Sheona Gillespie, originally from the UK, how she’s found it raising two teenage girls in Germany, with her husband Michael…
Family
Swallows and Amazons, out this August, shows the beauty of outdoor play – sailing, camping, building fires. Johanna Derry asks a child psychologist and the National Trust why children spend less time outdoors, and for 50 ways to engage with nature…
Family
For the second in our series on moving abroad, Johanna Derry speaks to artist and mother-of-three Laura Amiss about leaving the UK for Holland, where she’s lived for the past 13 years…
Family
“I went to Ukraine and we all sat down one evening – me, my mum and my auntie – and talked. It was a beautiful process. It is an ode to my family really, and to my country.” Food stylist and former Ottolenghi chef Olia Hercules on her cookbook – Mamushka – and motherhood…