Set in a small Irish village in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1962, Niall Williams' latest novel avoids cliché by investing specificity and life into characters and places.

It has been 17 years since Gavin & Stacey, the zeitgeist-capturing, Anglo-Cymraeg tale of love, friendship and family ...

Stanley Stewart, Monisha Rajesh, William Dalrymple and many more share their personal discoveries — and disappointments — of ...

The answer, he fears, is his own glowering presence that may have repelled ... a miracle — a Christmas miracle complete with a baby and a virginal mother, no less — into this story.

I’ve come down to breakfast, dressed and ready for school. I’m a fourth year student obsessed with pop music, and the ...

Picture the actor’s handsome face glowering down upon you from a blue ... Sorkin: “Shush, child, a wealthy baby-boomer is patronising you.” The rest of the United States, with bibs on ...

as his be-cloaked/be-hockey-masked shadow scampers through Dickensian backstreets with the monolith of Centre Point glowering down, and Charles Brown's lugubrious Merry Christmas Baby rolls around ...

The English director returns with a blistering drama starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a ferocious and unhappy London woman.

A patchwork of around 500 grinning, glowering and gleeful faces ... Boom time in Bentleigh coincided with the baby boom; the post-war era when the market gardens were subdivided into generous ...

The strap tightening system was confusing, and there were warning labels explaining the baby might become airborne or get strangled. I asked a nurse on the way to the elevator if she could take a ...