Tony Davis

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Share Everything in Cornwall comes with a backstory. There’s Tintagel Castle, where King Arthur was supposedly conceived. And there’s Godrevy Lighthouse, an inspiration for Virginia Woolf. That grand old house was the model for Manderley in Rebecca (1938). Indeed, it’s exactly where Daphne du Maurier wrote her gothic classic. Penzance? Famous for its real pirates, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan’s. And that’s before we get to Jesus Christ.

21 hours ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 15, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Everything in Cornwall comes with a backstory. There’s Tintagel Castle, where King Arthur was supposedly conceived. And there’s Godrevy Lighthouse, an inspiration for Virginia Woolf. That grand old house was the model for Manderley in Rebecca (1938). Indeed, it’s exactly where Daphne du Maurier wrote her gothic classic.

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May 13, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When it comes to sports cars, there’s only one firm rule: the new model must be faster than the old. The usual measure of speed is the all-important acceleration time to 100 or 200km/h. Some makers have broadened this definition to include lap times at, say, Germany’s daunting Nürburgring race circuit.

3 days ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 12, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It’s Los Angeles, so everything has a film or television connection. Even on my walk to The Last Bookstore, the footpath was blocked by what seemed like 100 people and their equipment. They were filming a kidnapping. It was followed by a foot chase down an alleyway, with a drone buzzing after a sprinting policeman.

3 days ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 12, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? What is it? The BMW 118 is the brand’s entry-level hatch. For decades BMW called it the 118i, with i for fuel-injection (even when all its cars were fuel-injected). With this fourth generation, the i has finally been dropped; BMW instead now uses i as a prefix not suffix, denoting an electric car. What does it cost?