Ever since the BBC’s Dad’s Army (which ran from 1968 to 1977), it’s been hard to keep a straight face when talking about the ...

It is both a comfort and a discomfort to yield to a new novel from Elizabeth Strout, who writes with such perspicacity that ...

Lady Chatterley’s Lover was written in a villa outside Florence during the winter of 1927-28, two years after D.H.

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There are already countless cricket histories. Many in recent decades anticipated Full Circle ’s aim of recounting the story ...

In the satirical print ‘Remarkable Characters at Mrs Cornely’s Masquerade’ from February 1771, the Georgian craze for ...

If this is in danger of sounding straightforward, the plot also zips back to wartime Paris, a serial murderer from the 1970s ...

Zen and Taoism make their expected appearances; so, too, does the café, reimagined as a modern agora, ‘a site of logos’, ...

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were 80; Bill Wyman had retired; and Charlie Watts was dead. But still it attracted 65,000 ...

In this lively and at times terrifying book, Katrina Manson tells the story of a team of hard-charging military personnel and ...

Happy polling day one and all. While the political parties knock up doors, the Financial Times has brought some ...

The late Silvio Berlusconi has come back from the dead – momentarily, it is hoped – to torment Italian Prime Minister Giorgia ...