Winchester Cathedral is planning to erect a statue of Jane Austen A council in a financial mire has come in for fierce criticism after its leader suggested forking out £10, 000 for a statue of Jane Au...
12.04.2023 dailymail.co.uk , express.co.uk1 December The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen All Enid Lambert wants is everyone home for one last Christmas. Her husband, Alfred, is rapidly deteriorating with Parkinson’s. And so her three adult ch...
12.02.2023 Theguardian.com and 2 sitesIt's all rather surreal. I'm sitting in a 19th Century St Petersburg mansion. Lying on the floor by my chair is Winston Churchill. He is fast asleep… and he is snoring. "Maybe if you wake him up from ...
12.07.2023 Bbc.com and 6 sitesA trigger warning has been put in place for a Rembrandt etching which depicts a clothed couple in a moment of passion - warning potential buyers of the 'explicit content'. The Dutch artist's The Frenc...
12.06.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesIt might be the season of good cheer and good will to all, but I find it difficult to congratulate Anne Robinson - the Queen of Mean - on her new posh boyfriend, Andrew Parker Bowles. It seems that Anne (79) and the 83-year-old retired army officer have been secretly dating for a year, according to locals in their smart bit of the Cotwolds. What is it about these ageing lovers that gives me the 'ick'? More importantly - am I jealous? Possibly. Single men with all their faculties intact are thin ...
12.07.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesTThey're just straight lines in the margins of a book, but the special magic of celebrity marginalia means these 15 lines could turn out to be the most valuable pencil marks in the world. They appear ...
12.03.2023 Theguardian.com and 5 sitesWhat to Read 10 Best Books of 2023 100 Notable Books Your Next Read December Releases In the months before Christopher Paolini wrote the book that made him a star in young adult fantasy, he built a ho...
12.02.2023 Nytimes.com“The Incredibles” is an incredible choice for family movie night. PIXAR Is there anything better than curling up on the couch with some popcorn and having a family movie night? No, there’s not, and so...
12.06.2023 Forbes.com and 1 sitesNew Line Cinema/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MoviestillsDB There’s nothing quite like seeing the pages of a book come to life on screen — especially when it comes to our favorite romance novels. Comparing what...
12.02.2023 Firstforwomen.com and 13 sitesThere comes a moment when “Poor Things, ” a gloriously bonkers fairy tale from the director Yorgos Lanthimos, explodes from black-and-white into wild, ecstatic color. Bella Baxter — played by a grinning, gasping, rutting, entirely astounding Emma Sto...
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