How the beaches, culture and people of Corfu hit me for six

A cricket match kindled my love affair with the Greek island, inspiring both a literary festival and my new novelThis is not where you would expect an article about one of the Mediterraneans most beautiful islands to start. Its the tail endofwinter, 2021. Kensal Green Cemetery in west London: the imperial mausoleacanted and crumbling, low clouds dissolving into rain. We are still in that strange phase of the pandemic when we are masked, newly aware of our bodies and the space around them. We are...