JULIA SAWALHA has been through her share of heartbreaks over the years, but now she’s decided the single life is absolutely fabulous – as Pam Francis repo...
Sunday, 9 November 2014
My DIY paradise and Girl Friday
YOU don’t have to be as wealthy as Sir Richard Branson to own a private island...artist Richart Sowa simply built one out of plastic bottl...
Party time: The best party accessories
GOT the frock? Now show it off with the perfect accessories – from top to ...
Get this: Quirky and stylish accessories we want this week
THERE'S something for every budget in this week’s must-have select...
The greatest gifts: Pampering presents for Christmas
OUR BEAUTY EDITOR picks her Christmas wish-l...
Digital generation: Have children's toys had their chips?
WITH the demand for hi-tech presents sure to hit new heights this year, should we be worried that playtime has gone digital? Not necessarily, as Rachel Carlyle repo...
James Nesbitt on The Missing: 'This role was an opportunity to test myself'
JAMES NESBITT had a blast in the new Hobbit film The Battle of the Five Armies. But as the single dad of an abducted child in BBC1’s The Missing, he has a serious point to prove – as Karen Hockney repo...
All I want for Christmas: Is it time to rein in our shopping lists?
SANTA'S shopping list seems to get longer ever year – so is it time we reined it in, wonders Rachel Carl...
In the closet with X Factor singer Fleur East
MIXING street with chic, the X Factor singer always hits the right n...
Passing Bells was 'one of the saddest war dramas we've seen'
DESPITE dodgy German accents Passing Bells was profound First World War drama, meanwhile Downton's servants are experiencing a property boom and C-listers are learning to sing with Gareth Mal...
Dance Til Dawn review: Inventive, passionate and romantic
STRICTLY's Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone meld ballroom and the best of stage dancing in this spectacular tango s...
Opera round-up: Mozart's Idomeneo, La Boheme and Donizetti's Les Martyrs
MOZART's opera gets a brutal kicking by Austrian director Martin Kusej; Jonathan Miller's La Boheme gets a well-deserved third revival at the ENO; virtuoso singing of Donizetti's work makes the upcoming CD even more excit...
Black comedy and strong acting in Kristin Wiig's The Skeleton Twins
SNL alumni Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader reunite to play the estranged, suicidal titular characters in a story of deception and disillusion in subur...
Keira Knightley is 'her most relaxed and appealing' in Say When
LYNN SHELTON's engaging romance about a twentysomething who's not ready to grow up is performed beautifully by a strong c...
Christopher Nolan's 'barmy' Interstellar is a narrative 'black hole'
YOU need a pHd in physics to understand the Inception director's bewildering and overblown tale of Matthew McConaughey saving the wo...
David Mitchell's Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse review
PEEP Show actor and writer David Mitchell has turned his ideas – which make pithy, clever Observer columns - into a rather unsatisfying b...
Peter Carey's cyber-terrorism and Aussie politics novel Amnesia 'crackles with energy'
THE brilliant Australian author explores digital activism, legacy journalism, US political interference and Australia's collective forgetfulness about its past in this probing but rollicking no...
Anne De Courcy's Margot At War: Love And Betrayal In Downing Street review
WITH a Prime Minister besotted with a younger woman and political clashes at home and abroad, De Courcy gives us an intriguing glimpse into the turbulent pre-Great War years of Margot Asquith's Downing Str...
Short story: No Problemo by Christopher Matthew
WHAT kind of antisocial maniac would start drilling at nine in the evening? Not the kind he was expecting, that’s for su...
Benedict Cumberbatch cracks the code to make Bletchley Park a hit
SHERLOCK star Benedict Cumberbatch has a new set of fans in staff at Bletchley Park, where the astonishing work of codebreakers helped to win the Second World W...
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