Mount Matthews had been on my Wellington bucket list for years, but it always felt too ambitious as a day trip from the Catchpool Valley. The route involves more than 800m of vertical ascent and ...

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Some of the world’s best SB20 sailors will gather on the River Derwent this weekend to compete for the 2026 Australian Championship title. A fleet of 14 boats will line up for the 2026 Storm Bay ...

IN a recent issue of NATURE (NOV. 25, p. 77) Mr. Catchpool writes:—“Is it, or is it not, the fact that allied species, which are confined each to a particular island, prove, when brought together, far ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Hawk is Dead,” by Peter James (Macmillan) "The Hawk is Dead," by Peter James (Macmillan) The royal train with Queen Camilla aboard is wrecked. The ...

At a New Year’s Eve gathering on the Greek island of Lamperos, Inspector Edward Catchpool finds himself among the guests of a community that preaches peace and forgiveness. The party’s highlight is ...

The traditional festive lull will be followed by an influx of cracking books in the new year, with some real treats in store for readers aged nine to 12 Conversely, January is quiet in terms of books ...

As a culturally influential, enduringly popular fictional character Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is rivaled only by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. During Dame Agatha’s ...

I SHOULD be glad to call Mr. Romanes' attention to a letter by Mr. Edmund Catchpool, published in NATURE, November 6, 1884 (vol. xxxi. p. 4), where he will find his theory of physiological selection ...

Hannah crafts a devilish puzzle for detective Hercule Poirot in her sixth Agatha Christie pastiche (after Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night). In 1932, Poirot and his friend, Scotland Yard inspector Edward ...