The Baillie Gifford Prize announces its non-fiction longlist and artist Soheila Sokhanvari wins a major award.

For stars Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes, the new thriller Last Seen is set apart by its layered ...

Being a former cop and former local chief means the current boss (Zahra Newman) is a little more forthcoming both with the ...

The Romance Writing Festival offers practical advice, professional connections and a network of people who understand both the desire and the challenges.

Director Dave Green’s fusion of live action and animation has more than a little in common with Who Framed Roger Rabbit – and it’s a delight.

Post-apocalypse stories like Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars have a long history – but lately they've been changing.

This is the unavoidable problem for the new iteration of The Mirror Crack’d, the Miss Marple mystery now playing at The Mill at Sonning. This is the loveliest of theatres, in a picturesque countryside ...

Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher in Don’t Look Back in Anger. Photo: Simon Emmett / Disney. When my editor was considering covering Don’t Look Back in Anger, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s ...

Midlist authors, who used to be reliable cornerstones of publishing, are now facing the pinch. Image: Darius Bashar, Unsplash. In 2025, the publishing industry is increasingly dominated by bestsellers ...

An artist sketching at Tate Britain. Image: Via Flickr. Emerging in the UK in the 1960s and ’70s, David Hockney, David Bowie and the members of the Beatles and Queen have become some of the world’s ...

Before the New York Dolls, Debbie Harry, Kurt Cobain or The Sex Pistols, there was the fictional Maggie Frisby, the roaring voice of 1960s counterculture. Frisby is now broke and disillusioned and her ...