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A unique show featured around American country music is set to perform a festive show at the West Cliff Theatre.

As an exhibition of her previously unseen early works on paper opens at Huxley-Parlour in London, Eileen Cooper talks about the importance of drawing, the women’s movement, and the relevance of these particular intimate images to the development of her style – and about looking back as she turns 70

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Prince Michael of Kent stepped out in force to celebrate the Royal Kennel Clubs 150th anniversary at Buckingham Palace in London.

The Duchess of Buccleuch, Elizabeth Scott, has died aged 68 after a short illness following an operation, a statement on behalf of her family has said.

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The winner receives £25,000, and each shortlisted author receives £1,500, making the Walter Scott Prize amongst the richest fiction prizes in the…

Featuring two Scots, one Irishman and an Irish-Trinidadian, the shortlist is the first in the prize’s thirteen-year history not to include an…

Colm Tóibín, Neil Jordan and Ciarán McMenamin in running for £25,000 award

FOUR books from Australia are among the contenders for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, with the announcement coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth. The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed yesterday. Two of the Australian books are not yet published in the UK. Settings of the books on the list range from Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian England to Borneo, Tasmania, Indonesia, Japan, the US, Russia and East Africa. The 2...

The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed on Tuesday. This year’s longlist includes four books from Australia, two of which are not yet published in the UK. Hinton, by Mark Blacklock (Granta) The Tolstoy Estate, by Steven Conte (HarperCollins Australia) The Year Without Summer, by Guinevere Glasfurd (Two Roads) A Room Made Of Leaves, by Kate Grenville (Canongate UK, Text Publishing Australia) Mr Beethoven, by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press) Afterlives,...