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Speaking at the FT Weekend Festival in September, Yuval Noah Harari, the historian and philosopher, said: “It’s the first ...

This delightful book explores the sometimes astonishing insights into the minds of renowned writers and the cats they loved.

I looked at the illustration (above) next to a very favourable review in The Spectator of Soft, a brief history of sentimentality by Ferdinand Mount. It was, suitably enough, an engraving of Little ...

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It follows an investigation and hearing which took place last month A TEACHER has been struck off after allegedly telling pupils during an English class about a dildo mishap that caused rectal ...

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Legendary broadcaster Peter Purves is set to play Charles Dickens in a radio play adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol'.

The first thing they noticed was the smell—like someone frying rancid meat. The two men sat in their flat in central London, awaiting their midnight appointment with the old, alcoholic Mr. Krook, who ...

Sources as old as Pliny the Younger, the ancient Roman lawyer and writer, tell stories of houses that are haunted.

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Del Toro’s film presents the Arctic of the 1800s as a barren wasteland, which overlooks the existence of Indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia.