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‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time

Bridgerton star Bessie – soon to play Nancy Mitford in a new TV drama – and her mum, acting royalty Imelda, talk Sondheim, sandwiches and taking the stage together in Shaw’s sex worker scandal Mrs Warren’s Profession

The Guardian - UK

Imelda Staunton’s daughter says growing up with actors ‘removed inaccessibility’

Bessie Carter is best known for playing Prudence Featherington in the hit Netflix Regency-inspired drama Bridgerton, along with her theatre work.

Evening Standard

Outrageous: cast, plot and everything we know

A guide to Outrageous

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‘Sex, puns and labradors’: How Olivia Laing fell for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters

Sneaking a teenage peak at her stepmother’s copies of Riders and Rivals opened the door to a world of glamour and romance for the author of Crudo and The Lonely City

The Guardian - UK

Bob Mortimer and India Knight among shortlistees for the Wodehouse comic fiction prize

The comedian and the journalist join four others on the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse shortlist, which rewards witty writers with champagne and a pig named after their book

The Guardian - UK

Nancy Mitford novel The Pursuit of Love to be reissued with new ‘trigger warning’

New edition of the 1945 book warns readers of ‘prejudices’ depicted within its pages

The Independent UK

A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again

The BBC is about to screen yet another adaptation of Great Expectations – and enough is enough. It’s time they focused on new stories, rather than constantly making the same show

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The British aristocracy: how gossipy memoirs feed national fascination with privileged elites

They don’t dominate parliament, they don’t own Twitter and they don’t star in big Hollywood movies. Yet the British aristocracy’s capacity to intrigue and enthral seems boundless.

The Conversation

He gave me a battered copy of a book I already owned, and I felt I’d come home – the Christmas present I’ll never forget

Afters years of expectation, hope and disappointment, all it took was one simple, heartfelt gift to show me he was the one

The Guardian - UK

Darling by India Knight review – fresh retelling of a Mitford classic

Nancy Mitford’s romantic comedy The Pursuit of Love is delightfully reimagined with warmth and caustic charm

The Guardian - UK

Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine review – the naked truth

From boarding school through the Sloane years to her turn as Anton Du Beke’s worst-ever Strictly partner, the former TV style guru’s memoir is sometimes borderline deranged, often haphazard, but never dull

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Trapido's 'undeniably sexy' novel of academic bohemia still dazzles at 40

Barbara Trapido’s debut novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, is one of those books that seems destined to reach its readers in roundabout ways.

The Conversation

Partygate Revisited: why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is starting to sound like an Evelyn Waugh novel

When allegations arose some years ago that former prime minister David Cameron had behaved obscenely with a pig’s head during a Bullingdon Club event while at the University of Oxford, he distanced himself from the controversial group, saying:

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