Teachers lurk anxiously behind tinsel-covered curtains; excited children wait for their big moment; and nervous parents hope that their…

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…

Having suffered a drawn-out divorce, a failed rebound relationship and a debilitating bout of depression, Elizabeth Gilbert decides to go…