It is a cliché of parenthood that it enables you to see the world with fresh eyes. However, I didn't bargain on seeing England so starkly through the eyes of my seven-month-old daughter... more
ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex won the YouTube Audience Award, the only prize chosen by viewers.
Mark Wright, who appears in the reality show, said it felt "incredible" to win... more
Children's author Philip Pullman, an advocate of tomorrow's World Book Night, tells Alison Roberts why he is such a vehement opponent of library cuts... more
The daughter of Elton John’s favourite jeweller tells Liz Hoggard that she feels sorry for the spoiled and humourless character that she plays on screen... more
The end of the weekend has just become bearable again. Into the gap left by Downton Abbey steps TV drama Any Human Heart — starring the original book’s biggest fan... more
You may not know them yet — but you soon will. Patricia Dobson reveals Screen International’s list of the best up-and-coming British film talent.... more
New luvvie in training Freddie Fox is the latest in a long line of foxy thespians. But he's not afraid to play against type with his breakthrough role as a Cockney transsexual, discovers Pip Clements... more
Charlotte Brontë's desk, where she wrote Jane Eyre at the family parsonage in Haworth, is up for auction next week. Sotheby's has put an estimated £10,000 price tag on its spindly legs and delicate frame... more
Are you sitting comfortably? Well, don’t take it for granted. Even London’s cosiest middle classes can be reduced to low life at a stroke, according to William Boyd in his latest novel. Here he expands on this and other themes ... more
It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief... more
We all love a good literary hoax. With literary (as opposed to commercial) fraud, there seems less at stake. No lives are lost, no crime is committed. Better still, it is usually a con aimed at the pretentious arts establishment... more
In Rabbit Fever, women the world over are hooked on the Rampant Rabbit sex toy and as a full-length mockumentary film it isn't long before the vaguely Freudian gag wears pretty thin.... more
A new "mockumentary" Rabbit Fever, featuring the world's most popular sex toy, is set to become the unlikeliest British film smash of the year.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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