January’s floral symbol is the carnation, and I was thinking of that recently after a friend died following a heroic battle with breast cancer. Pink carnations seemed to be everywhere during the ...

The French eventually unmasked the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, famed spies in the Napoleonic wars, but as Harvard graduate student Eloise Kelly discovers at the start of this breezy ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. The carnation has a bad reputation as an old-fashioned flower, commonly found in petrol ...

Too common and sold in cellophane by the bucketload outside petrol stations and supermarkets, the carnation is the last-resort flower. But forget stiff, frilly pompoms for funerals and cheap filling ...

While carnations are a classic flower often spotted in modern-day bouquets, they have a history that goes back far beyond our ...

Indie band The Vaccines will be bringing their rock riffs to two Kent venues next year. The four-piece will be performing in Margate and Folkestone in February as part of their Pick-Up Full of Pink ...

It's difficult to narrate one book, much less a story within a story that spans two different time periods, but Reading meets this challenge with a bravado befitting Willig's swashbuckling tale.