After the Saturday ‘big shop’, kids and dogs went out to play and didn’t return until supper in front of the telly with Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game. Saturdays were a day of fun and treats ...

For decades, he’s captivated audiences as a certain kind of character: charming. Handsome. Beautiful, even. So much so that people saw him that way, too. Now 51, and with a run of prestige ...

Christian Kracht’s book finds a narrator much like the author on a family- and history-haunted road trip with his mother.

1998: Tom Bower’s book, Fayed: The Unauthorised Biography ... said the situation combined “some of the most horrific elements of cases involving Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein”. 31 ...

This King’s Head production shows why so many people were so keen to see it. To say Maitland's childhood was unusual would be a significant understatement and although some of the incidents in ...

What are first edition books? And how can you tell if a book is a first edition? We teamed up with our colleagues at the Macmillan Archives to help answer these questions. If you're a fan of ...

There are bad taste jokes about Ghandi, Sharia law and dead children. He is particularly proud of a gag about Jimmy Savile, adding, like a naughty schoolboy, that it might not be making it into ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

is remembered in “Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth.” The book published this month is by Richard Esposito, who was at New York’s hometown paper from his copyboy days to metro editor ...

His book ought to be read in conjunction with the CD Mike Batt: The Penultimate Collection, which contains 34 classic tracks. Christmas present problems are instantly solved.

PIMPS have gone online and made it as simple to “order a woman to exploit” as it is to order a takeaway meal, a former rugby international who now champions women’s rights in Westminster has ...