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Bookbarn International: How a barn full of old books became a web wonder
“I've always used my Darwin connection shamelessly, often to the dismay of my cousins. If someone said at school that their father was a policeman, ...
'It was mass hysteria': Jason Isaacs on groupies, theatre bores and snogging James Bond
Lucius Malfoy never got to keep his 'Paris Hilton wig'. Or rather Jason Isaacs wasn't allowed to take home Malfoy's so-named, blond hairpiece when they ...
Five-minute memoir: Russ Litten recalls the day he saw his double in Prague
I know nobody in Prague, not a soul, which is one of the main reasons I decide to move there. The last person I expect ...
Crash course: Summer blockbusters
Star Trek Into Darkness 9 MayJJ Abrams' sequel started the season – along with Iron Man 3 – with Benedict Cumberbatch in villainous formThe Hangover Part ...
The Saturday miscellany: Feminist classics; Anna Wintour; Clerkenwell Design Week; Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing; Louis Vuitton
Culture clash: Feminist classics The Bell Jar vs The GoldenBy Holly WilliamsSylvia Plath's slim, single novel The Bell Jar was highly autobiographical, telling the story of ...
Album review: The National, Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
Slowly but surely, Brooklyn quintet The National have developed over a decade from modest alt.country beginnings to the point where they can draw 10,000 fans ...
DVD & Blu-ray review: Billy Liar (PG)
“Today is a day of big decisions,” Billy keeps claiming. Except it isn't. The 19-year-old fantasist (Tom Courtenay, perfectly cast) is incapable of making big ...
Caught in the Net: New moves from art-rock's top brass
Well-regarded art-rock group These New Puritans return with their third album, Field of Reeds, on 10 June. The four-piece, from Southend-on-Sea but based in London, ...
The Fall: Same old Mark E Smith. But different...
Mark E Smith and The Fall are one of the constant, cryptic undercurrents of English music. From Live at the Witch Trials, in 1978, through ...
Barfly offers a chance to catch new acts for nothing
At London's Barfly, the indie-folk duo Slow Club played an intimate show to a crowd of ticket-winning fans. Next month, Kate Nash will take to ...
Screen Talk: Clive could be king of Cannes
King of the Castle, a comedy starring Clive Owen (pictured) and Jacki Weaver about a philanderer who is blackmailed by a teenager is being sold ...
Album review: Texas, The Conversation ([PIAS])
Returning after eight years away, Texas shoot straight to the top of 2013's Unnecessary Albums chart with The Conversation. It's not that it's actively bad ...
Pussy Riot: Putin-bashing, punk rock and politics make for a riotous mix
It is more than a year since five members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot wearing brightly coloured balaclava masks staged a short and cacophonous ...
Saoirse Ronan: Interview with the vampire
Saoirse Ronan is stifling a giggle. The recording device has broken mid-interview, and Ronan, the Irish teen star of Atonement and The Lovely Bones, is ...
Leaving Alexandria, By Richard Holloway
This excellent memoir crystallises current debates on thechurch, homosexuality and women's ordination. A former Bishop of Edinburgh who left under a cloud of controversy, Holloway takes ...
The Playlist: Solange / Holy Ghost! / Katy B
Solange ft Kendrick Lamar Looks Good with TroubleBeyoncé's hipster sister (pictured) has confirmed she will put out a full-length LP later this year. For now, there's ...
Album review: Jamie Cullum, Momentum (Island)
Jamie Cullum's first album for Island may be his best. It certainly goes beyond his retro-jazz comfort zone, with piercing electric organ and electric piano ...
La Donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House: Starry cast all set to make waves
Gioachino Rossini's La Donna del Lago (“The Lady of the Lake”), which has just opened at the Royal Opera House, is an operatic rarity of ...
Arcadia, By Lauren Groff
Poppy-seed cake, polygamy and patchouli are just some of theingredients of Seventies communal life recalled in this sensuousnovel. Bit is the first child to be ...
Album review: Dobrinka Tabakova, String Paths (ECM New Series)
Aptly for a Bulgarian composer educated in England, the music of Dobrinka Tabakova pivots on the cusp of East and West European, as well as ...
Great Works: The White Horse (2013) Life-size by Mark Wallinger
Are you aware that the piazza in front of the British Council'sSpring Garden headquarters at the eastern end of the Mall is atemporary exhibition space ...
Album review: Daria van den Bercken, Handel: Suites for Keyboard (Sony Classical)
These days, promotional novelty tends to wag the classical dog. In Dutch pianist Daria van den Bercken's case, this meant playing on a barge towed ...
Clever Girl, By Tessa Hadley
Ten-year-old Stella lives with her widowed mum in rented roomsin run-down Sixties Bristol. Top of the class, Stella loves horsesand reading. When her mother remarries ...
Daft Punk: Together in electric dreams
Giorgio Moroder (vocals) They had three microphones. I said: “Why three microphones?” They said: “Well, when you tell the story when you're young, we have the ...
One to watch: Laurretta Summerscales, Ballerina, 22
She may not be a lead principal yet – but she has certainly bypassed the 60 swans. This Surrey-born ballerina, who joined her mum's ballet ...
Soap Opera: People of Peckham take centre stage
For sixty-three years listeners to The Archers have switched on their radio sets in order to keep abreast of the everyday stories about the lives, ...
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest the favourite to win Eurovision 2013
Favourites Denmark could prove a disaster for bookies if they land their predicted win at the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow night. The Danish entry "Only Teardrops" ...
Will the UK be Totally Eclipsed? Bookmakers not betting on a Bonnie Tyler Eurovision Song Contest victory
Bonnie Tyler takes to the Eurovision stage tomorrow night bearing the weight of a nation’s expectation. Sadly, the expectation is that the gravel-voiced star will ...
Will the UK be Totally Eclipsed? Bookmakers not betting on a Bonnie Tyler Eurovision Song Contest 2013 victory
Bonnie Tyler takes to the Eurovision stage tomorrow night bearing the weight of a nation’s expectation. Sadly, the expectation is that the gravel-voiced star will ...
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Grand Final: Get the lowdown on the 25 countries competing in Malmö
The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived: the European Song Contest 2013 is tomorrow (!) live from Malmö in Sweden. Who will ...
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Grand Final: Get the lowdown on the 26 countries competing in Malmö
The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived: the European Song Contest 2013 is tomorrow (!) live from Malmö in Sweden. Who will ...
Eurovision 2013 to feature first lesbian kiss in protest against gay marriage 'no' vote
Eurovision isn’t all about the songs. As the votes cast by the Eastern bloc show, the contest is as much about politics as talent. Finnish entry ...
Eurovision 2013 to feature first lesbian kiss in protest against lack of gay marriage legislation
Eurovision isn’t all about the songs. As the votes cast by the Eastern bloc show, the contest is as much about politics as talent. Finnish entry ...
Eurovision 2013 to feature first lesbian kiss
Eurovision isn’t all about the songs. As the votes cast by the Eastern bloc show, the contest is as much about politics as talent. Finnish entry ...
The Museum Of Bad Art: Latest exhibition to feature images of wildlife, realistic, imaginary (and unidentifiable)
The French artist Edgar Degas famously wrote 'painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.' One ponders, therefore, what Degas ...
The Museum Of Bad Art: Latest exhibition to feature images of wildlife realistic, imaginary (and unidentifiable)
The French artist Edgar Degas famously wrote 'painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.' One ponders, therefore, what Degas ...
Arts Council to find new Arctic Monkeys in major funding shift that favours rock stars
The Arts Council has launched a mission to find the next Arctic Monkeys after announcing a major shift towards funding aspiring rock stars. In a “landmark ...
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Grand Final: Get the lowdown on the 26 countries competing in Malmö
The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived: the European Song Contest 2013 is tomorrow (!) live from Malmö in Sweden. Who will ...
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Grand Final: Get the lowdown on the 25 countries competing in Malmö
The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived: the European Song Contest 2013 is tomorrow (!) live from Malmö in Sweden. Who will ...
Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell pleads 'Not guilty' 19 times to series of child sex charges
Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell denied a series of child sex offences when he appeared in court today. The star, who plays car mechanic Kevin ...
Shameless actress Tina Malone reveals she is pregnant at 50 following IVF treatment
Shameless star Tina Malone has revealed she is five weeks pregnant at the age of 50 following successful IVF treatment. The actress, who plays Mimi ...
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Mystery of anteater that gave birth after living alone in Connecticut zoo cage for YEAR AND A HALF
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:17 EST, 17 May 2013 | UPDATED: 06:27 EST, 18 May 2013 Was it immaculate anteater conception?A female anteater has unexpectedly given birth at a ...
Britain's oldest shop which first opened for business during the reign of Henry V could finally close after 600 years
Boxford Stores in Suffolk under threat after 94-year-old owner diesIt has been at the centre of the little village for centuriesHistorians discovered it was first ...
Justin Bieber ordered to pay thousands towards the care of abandoned pet Mally the capuchin monkey
Mally the capuchin monkey was held by customs officials in MunichBieber did not have the correct paperwork for Mally, a 19th birthday present By Helen ...
Brian Kent: British tourist, 46, drowns in rough seas in front of his wife during family holiday in Italy
Brian Kent, 46, was on holiday with his wife Sally and a party of friendsHe was dragged under by strong currents moments after entering seaThe ...
Average English child says ¿like¿ five times more than their grandparents as 20 year language study finds standards are also slipping at the House of Commons
The research is part of the Cambridge English Corpus - one of the biggest collections of words in the English language Over 20 years, it ...
Dambusters anniversary: Chris Evans given trip in Britain's only airworthy Lancaster
Presenter boasted of trip in historic aircraft, saying 'I can't believe I am getting paid to have this much fun'Commemorated the day 617 Squadron returned ...
Fourth Coronation Street star accused of being a paedophile
Unnamed star was 'household name' but no longer appears on showAccused of 'very inappropriate' behaviour towards girl in the 1960sFriend of victim, who is in ...
Dogs of war: The four-legged army recruits who detect hidden Taliban bombs and weapons
Eight puppies have become the latest recruits on the Ministry of Defence's new 'Puppy Programme'Next year they will be among an elite Army team sniffing ...
Civil servants to be told: 'Empty bedpans, push hospital trolleys and clean floors if you want to be promoted'
Top 200 mandarins in Department of Health must carry out frontline tasksThey will be required to do four weeks a year for six years to ...
cheryl cole cannes film festival arrivals
CHERYL Cole steps off her flight arriving at the Cannes Film Festival, looking a bit like one of Easyjet’s cabin crew. The Geordie lass, 29, ...