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It’s a mashup of fantasy and romantic fiction – and this week the UK’s first bookshop devoted entirely to ‘romantasy’ works opened its doors in Oxford, with long queues of eager readers outside.

Tributes have been paid to the 1980s pop legend Bonnie Tyler who’s died at the age of 75.

Christopher Nolan’s newest blockbuster film The Odyssey, with a star-studded line up including Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland, hits the cinemas next week, and it’s already causing a stir. 

The journalist and author Valentine Low was the royal correspondent for The Times from 2008 to 2023.

Prince Harry has lost his latest legal battle, this time against the publisher of the Daily Mail. 

The Bafta-winning actor Kimberley Nixon is turning one of the darkest experiences of motherhood into a call for change through her new one-woman play, Baby Brain.

A giant tent has gone up outside New York’s Madison Square Gardens, along with barricades, lines of police, and media crews from all over the world.

For her London stage debut, the award-winning film and TV star Sandra Oh is taking on the 17th century play ‘Le Misanthrope’ by Moliere. 

More than 70 years after her death, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s image is everywhere: on tote bags, t-shirts, posters.

The Donald Trump administration has set out to purge historical artworks and artefacts which it deems ‘anti-American’.

We spoke to Alex Farquharson, who is director of the Tate Britain gallery.

David Hockney famously said “I prefer living in colour” and his life was exactly that. 

Despite it being rejected over 50 times, when Marcia Hutchinson finally got her debut novel published she was rewarded with a place on the shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. 

He’s best known as a Hollywood actor in blockbusters like The Fly and Jurassic Park, but for more than three decades Jeff Goldblum has also pursued a second career as a jazz pianist and bandleader.

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