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As she launches her first children’s book, the actor answers your questions on Alan Partridge, her iconic green dress and thrilling 10-year-olds with a bullseye

The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliche, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, first published in 1878, the year Russia’s imperial war against the Ottoman Empire concluded – a war that had prompted international alarm about Russian expansionism and fomented internal unrest.

The icy glamour of Garbo’s doomed heroines is genuinely iconic, but cinema’s most famous loner could also do comedy. A century after her first appearance – and 83 years since her last, here’s why Hollywood missed her so badly

Bill Bailey’s strangely addictive acting competition heads to Birmingham. Plus: more witchy love on Domino Day. Here’s what to watch this evening

Australian Ballet dancer Amy Harris says there will be happiness and tears when the curtain falls on her 22 year career.

Lesley Hart’s adaptation of the classic novel is driven with tremendous energy following its tragic heroine as she discards bourgeois convention

When someone is glancing for inspiration on their vision board, they usually flip open a magazine and cut out pictures of their favourite stars, what they unravel, how they live and the ideology they follow. Click through Pinterest, or take to the streets for some old-fashioned people-watching. But for the…

Material from books including ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ was discovered in novelist’s 2021 work ‘The Dogs’