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Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel on breaking into her industry to pursue her passion

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Thank the damp climate for our many ruined castles, cottages, ballrooms and barns

Richard E Grant: ‘Every day I thank God for Withnail and I’

Richard E Grant is playing another starry-eyed drunk and this time he's Oscar nominated

Kate Bush: The Heathcliff, Peter Pan and Othello connections

From Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, literature has featured strongly across her 10 albums

The Little Stranger: Ghosts in the big house are not scary part

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People in the Room by Norah Lange: Macabre Argentinean classic

English translation of a masterful, deeply mysterious novel about female isolation

The Secret of Marrowbone: it’s familiar, but not always eerily familiar

Review: It’s a shame Sergio G Sánchez didn’t stretch himself more in his directorial debut

Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'

The great American writer on Trump, the #MeToo movement and living the retirement life

Homeless children growing up in poverty just outside Disneyland

The Florida Project is Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, a comedy about children living in budget motels in the shadow of Disney World

John Banville: Novels were never the same after Henry James

James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?

Britten’s opera stumbles from the small screen to the live stage

‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life

Boni de Castellane sale recalls excesses of ‘Belle Époque’

The French count burned through $10 million of his American heiress wife’s fortune. Their treasures are for sale for the first time in over a century

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Bin the fancy self-help books you got for Christmas and heed the wisdom of three great thinkers

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