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A landmark auction of Robert Kime’s estate reveals a one-in-a-generation decorator’s power, says Adam Bray

Despite an impressive young cast, the show is weighed down by the overabundance of plot

The 90s were a decade of carefree optimism and comically low stakes. Matthew Perry’s death brings us crashing back into the now

For three decades, authors scribbled away with the spectre of the Bad Sex Award judges looking over their shoulder. The award — run by the small Soho-based magazine Literary Review — names and shames writers for “redundant, poorly written or unnecessarily pornographic descriptions of sex in fiction”. It became so…

In today’s Football Daily: Manchester United’s malaise and plenty more

At age 90, Willie Nelson is looking back on the songs he's written across seven decades

Alleged attacker Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, following incident in Chautauqua, New York, that left Rushdie blind in one eye

Kehinde Fadipe’s debut novel, “The Sun Sets in Singapore,” follows three expat Nigerian women to highlight the specific struggles that come with their race, gender and backgrounds — particularly in an upscale and competitive environment like Singapore