In our new series, Houses with History, we ask interior designers to take us on a tour of a house of significance that they have some relationship with, that has inspired their own aesthetic and approach to design. In the first of the series, @lucyhammondgiles, Associate Director at @sibylcolefax invites us inside Charleston, once the home of the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Nestled between the hills of the South Downs in Sussex, Charleston was a gathering place for the artists, writer

The world knows his name. Now hear her story. Observer Debut Novelist Harriet Constable's dazzling historical debut follows Anna Maria della Pieta through the lavish world of eighteenth-century Venice, telling the story of the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces. 'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave | Bloomsbury Publishing UK

ANNOUNCEMENT ⚡ Bloomsbury is thrilled to announce the new illustrator of the much-love Harry Potter Illustrated Editions series: the multi-award-winning artist, Levi Pinfold, who continues a genre of spellbinding visual storytelling established by Jim Kay. 📚 Levi Pinfold will illustrate the final two books in the Harry Potter Illustrated Edition series beginning with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which will publish in October 2026. Many Harry Potter fans will already be familiar with