Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still in cinemas and is absolutely fantastic. Considering the roleplaying game (RPG) source material has such expansive worlds and ideas, it only seems…
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After securing Paralympics gold, swimmer Ellie Robinson became terrified of failure | Other | Sport
Ellie Robinson, photographed this week at Queen Mary University of London (Image: Steve Reigate) It was just after winning her Paralympic gold medal at Rio 2016 that swimmer Ellie Robinson…
The Jam’s Paul Weller rocks on writing ‘very good eloquent songs’ | Music | Entertainment
Singer/song-writer Paul Weller writes new book (Image: Nicole Nodland) When Paul Weller was a nine-year-old kid, he used to thrum out chords on a cheap plastic guitar while his friend…
Sex and drugs, pop and roll: The undoubted stars of the nineties | Music | Entertainment
Step group members: Lee Latchford Evans, Claire Richards, Faye Tozer and Ian “H” Watkins (Image: Getty) They were, let there be no mistake, required to project a squeaky clean image…
Baize of glory: How snooker survived throughout history | Books | Entertainment
Rub of the green: Star Steve Davis in 1985 (Image: Getty) It is a game of subtlety and mystery – a slow-paced affair, in an increasingly fast-paced world. The critic…
Blood-Eagle Saga review: An epic tale of triumph and terror | Books | Entertainment
White-haired stranger Snorri emerges from a frozen wilderness and offers to recount a saga to Viking warlord Sven Ravenfeeder and his men in exchange for food and water. But the…
It’s 50 years since Red Rum’s iconic Grand National win – but it’s as amazing as ever | History | News
Red Rum claims victory in the 1973 Grand National (Image: PA) It’s Saturday March 31, 1973, and we’re about to witness one of the greatest horse races of all time.…
Why the kneeling man beside dying Martin Luther King was a police spy | History | News
Marrell McCollough tends the mortally-wounded Martin Luther King as onlookers point towards assassin (Image: Joseph Louw/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty/AP Photo/Charles Kelly) The gunshot ripped apart the evening calm outside the…
The Fourth Haunting review: England’s most celebrated ghost hunter investigates | Books | Entertainment
The Fourth Haunting is a full-length paranormal thriller, F.G. Cottam’s latest foray into the world of the unknown, the uncertain and the sometimes very disconcerting. Its central character is Tom…
Australia’s not all Neighbours, barbecues and beaches, says Jane Harper | Books | Entertainment
Bestselling Anglo-Australian author Jane Harper (Image: GETTY) The promise of a new life in Australia has long intrigued the British, and over the past 80 years millions of us have…