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Love 'em or ban 'em, you can't keep the hoodie down

22.10.09

If you like high fashion, hoods are good. Hoods and snoods are “in” this autumn: the catwalk tells us so... more

Darling, I’m not name-dropping I’m networking

16.10.09

Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon... more

Take 'history' by artists with a big pinch of salt

09.10.09

Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more

I'm rich but worried my stunning girlfriend is just after my money

11.08.09

They are candid, provocative - and totally at odds with each other. Our resident 'sexperts' offer conflicting advice on Londoners' sexual dilemmas...... more

Please, no more scraps from beyond the grave

14.07.09

George III got it right, I think. He once said he was always glad to hear of the death of an author - because then he knew he'd got the fellow complete upon his shelf... more

How fanfic took over the web

08.06.09

Ever wondered what happened to Harry Potter’s children? Or if Mr Rochester and Jane stayed hitched? Out in cyberspace fans have written sequels. ... more

Sony and Google in digital books tie-up

19.03.09

Sony has teamed up with Google to fight back against Amazon’s lead in offering digital books through hand-held electronic reading devices... more

The man who wrote the script for London’s theatre boom

27.01.09

His musical, Billy Elliot, is a hit on Broadway. Now Lee Hall is bringing his Evening Standard Award-winning The Pitmen Painters back by popular demand.... more

Record-breaking London film festival ends on emotional high

31.10.08

The London Film Festival notched up record audiences in a two-week run ending with the European premiere of the new movie from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle... more

Fetish night with a big heart

21.08.08

Dressed like Betty Boop in a skintight red PVC dress, Miss Behave has the fruity voice of a head girl... more

A cocktail of knowledge beats exams

21.08.08

The GCSE results are published today and, for anyone who ever took an exam, this is a time when a cloud of retroactive butterflies are released... more

Bond girl Gemma to play Tess Of The d'Urbevilles as TV turns back to costume dramas

20.08.08

It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. ... more

What's new on television this autumn? Austen, Hardy and Dickens

20.08.08

You could call them credit crunch classics - reliable dramas for worrying times... more

Lashings of votes for Enid in readers' poll

18.08.08

Enid Blyton has been named best-loved author of all time in a new poll... more

ITV will bring back variety shows to win Saturday night ratings battle

14.08.08

ITV is to bring back variety shows for its autumn season in a bid to win the Saturday night prime-time ratings war.... more

Pictured: Face of the 'good-looking, pleasant young man' who inspired Jane Austen's Mr Darcy

10.06.08

A tiny portrait of the man a young Jane Austen loved and lost - believed to have inspired Pride And Prejudice's Mr Darcy - is to surface at an antiques fair.... more

DVDs of the week

18.03.08

Catch the outstanding Into The Wild and a CGI Ray Winstone slaying beasts and bedding women in Beowulf, among this week's top DVDs.... more

What's wrong with a chick flick?

20.11.07

The Jane Austen Book Club may not be perfect but it is a classic woman's picture in which the protagonists get to wear some great outfits.... more

Rom-com gone wrong

15.11.07

The Jane Austen Book Club is a rom-com that tries to be sassy and true but ends up ridiculously unlike any kind of reality at all.... more

Brick Lane star up for best actress award

24.10.07

The young star of Brick Lane is to go head to head with Dame Judi Dench for the honour of best actress in the British Independent Film awards.... more

Jane Austen classic butchered

17.07.07

Amateurish performances, excruciatingly slow delivery and limp direction butcher Jane Austen's razor-sharp wit in an adaptation of Mansfield Park that should never have got near the stage.... more

Sketches by an old lecher

13.07.07

Simon Gray's investigation of Charles Dickens's extra-marital activities is enjoyable enough to please enthusiasts, but pulls too many punches to enthral the uncommitted, says Kieron Quirke.... more

Leonardo who? We like Banksy

18.06.07

Phoenix Nights star Peter Kay and guerrilla artist Banksy are bigger art heroes among young people than Leonardo da Vinci, if a new survey is to be believed. ... more

Put Kate and Kylie 'in museum'

17.05.07

Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and the iPod should be preserved in museums as icons of our time, according to a new survey.... more

Is this really a portrait of Jane Austen?

11.05.07

The novelist's family claims it is the only painting of the much-loved writer; its detractors say it can't possibly be. As the debate rages, a national treasure is at stake.... more

Miss Austen in love

08.03.07

Becoming Jane is your typical well-made British period piece. Only a lack of real inspiration and true cinematic flair prevent it from being a complete success.... more

Austen biopic gets stuck in the mud

05.03.07

For a romantic comedy Becoming Jane has serious aspirations. The feminist heroine is both brittle and self-conscious, while the horror of poverty is also forcefully conveyed.... more

And next year's winners will be ...

15.02.07

The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07

After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

V is for verbose

01.08.06

Natalie Portman shaved off her Star Wars locks for V for Vendetta, but doubts remain about whether it was worth it. Also released is Shooting Dogs and a couple of classics revisited.... more