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King Charles reportedly has a closer relationship with his daughter-in-law Catherine than Prince William

The royal family feud will need 'more than one holiday celebration' to mend bridges, claims expert

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

In this darkly satirical novel about 21st-century motherhood and women’s labour, the protagonist seeks liberation at a brothel-cum-yoga studio

Part fan letter, part cultural commentary, Dal Chodha’s ‘You gotta keep your head straight about clothes’ (Tenderbooks) is a unique testament to fostering a personal sense of style

J.K. Rowling, the British author who conjured up the hugely popular Harry Potter franchise, has made a billion-dollar fortune from seven novels translated into 80 languages, which sold 500 million copies, and eight blockbuster films made out of it.

A SCOTTISH artist is collecting 1984 copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a display on the Scottish island where it was written 75…

Rebecca Hill’s co-author has accused her of plagiarising from a draft of a BBC article

Becky Hill, who Murdaugh’s lawyers accuse of jury-tampering, alleged to have plagiarized passages in memoir from BBC article

THE first ever edition of The Broons annual has been acquired by the National Library of Scotland, completing its collection of the books.

Repetition is the key to learning – but you don’t want to suck the joy out of it. To me, sketching has become more than just a means to an end