Suzannah Ramsdale

Touching, funny and profound, Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch is a riot

What a stonker of a novel. An all-encompassing masterpiece layering themes of dark magic, fascism, romance and time travel, all while dripping in vivid historical detail and humour.

A new study shows that couples who sleep in the same bed are woken six times per night by their partners. If they're lucky, I say.

...says the Evening Standard’s lifestyle director, Suzannah Ramsdale, who values her sleep and sanity more than snuggling up to her snoring husband

There is nothing quite like taking some time to yourself and enjoying a decadent spa day, where you can hunker down in a fluffy robe and let your only concern be whether to sauna or steam next.

Suzannah Ramsdale finds there is something for everyone on the family-friendly Cotswolds estate

Let me first acknowledge that spending £300 on a water bottle should be unfathomable. And yet. I find myself mulling it over.

I wake at 5am — I've done that for years. It's something that's stayed with me from growing up in Australia, where early mornings are part of the rhythm of the day.

Show me someone who isn't feeling at sea, as if they are struggling against the downward pull of a whirlpool as they try to balance work, home and everything in between.

She is one of the most photographed women in the world. Her catwalk strut is elegant yet unbothered, her raspy Croydon accent is sexy as hell and she makes everything she does look unbelievably cool. She is, of course, Kate Moss, a living icon and one of our all-time greatest Londoners. For Ellie Bamber, the chance to play her in Moss & Freud was the role of a lifetime — it was also absolutely terrifying. As she tells Joe Bromley for our cover interview this week: “The fear set in very quickly.”