Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein. The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Heather Christle’s “In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf” is an unusual blend of personal and literary history.

An original and powerful piece of drama is coming to Oswestry next week in the shape of Frankenstein: Afterglow, before ...

Discovering the Shelleys of Marlow” was the subject of the latest meeting of the Henley Archaeological and Historical Group ...

This is the first time works have been on display from the bequest gifted by him to Glasgow Life Museums following the death of his wife in 2014, which comprises artworks he created for her on ...

MARY is visceral horror with its teeth bared ... Surrounding her are the dangerous poet Lord Byron (Tom Clarke), wild and charming Percy Shelley (Dominic Ona-Ariki), volatile and jealous stepsister ...

ARTIST, writer, playwright, illustrator — and the man who made the Oscar-winning film Poor Things possible — Alasdair Gray was one of Scotland’s great creative polymaths and eccentrics, now celebrated ...

Kumar Sanu is a maestro of Indian sub-continental music, having recorded songs across a range of continental languages, defining an entire era of romantic melodies in Bollywood. The Indian singer's ...

From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...

On any list of the most admired composers working in film today, Alexandre Desplat would be either at the top or very close to it. That’s not just for the quality of the work — although, as his list ...

Next month marks the 170th anniversary of the publication of a new newspaper for Monmouthshire, the Usk Observer. Here we reveal the ...