Monty Python co-founder Eric Idle announced a nine-city US book tour tied to his new memoir, IDLE IN PROVENCE, chronicling his 55-year journey restoring a French countryside property purchased at the ...

'The English seem to behave as though the sun has issued a command - and for a few hours, you must obey it' (Photo: Teri Pengilley) I am eight years old and it is 11:25pm or near that ungodly hour in ...

It’s become one of my longest-running traditions as a writer. Every New Year’s Day, the first thing I publish is a compendium of inspirational quotes, one for each of the next 365 days (366 in leap ...

The author on getting hooked on Flann O’Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down My earliest reading memory Not my earliest reading memory, exactly, but ...

Parents need to know that Monty Python's Flying Circus is a classic British sketch comedy series that includes some silly physical comedy skits that are fine for younger kids, but it's most ...

Ala recherche du temps perdu is founded on a gesture so famous that it’s hard to retain the idea of its risk. The narrator (and to some extent Proust himself) decides to build a whole long novel on an ...

The actor follows her unfettered 2021 memoir with a miscellany of showbiz tales, agony aunt advice and her F-bomb on the Today programme “I’m lesbian, I’m short, I’m fat, I’m Jewish, I’m Dickensian,” ...

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