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This week saw the launch of the final episode of our hit podcast Jane Austen’s Paper Trail (although a bonus Q&A episode is coming in January for any Austen fans experiencing withdrawal).

Documenting the life of an extraordinarily talented musician and writer, Bread of Angels – Patti Smith’s latest memoir, published at the age of 78 – further charts a life filled with genius, creativity, adversity and tragedy.

In her new memoir, singer Patti Smith has revealed how she discovered the man who raised her was not her biological father.

Patti Smith’s new memoir, Bread of Angels, arrives on a significant date. On November 4, 1946, Smith’s artistic soulmate and first true love, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, was born. Forty-eight years later, on the same day, her “king among men”, beloved husband and fellow musician, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died…

Johnny Depp accompanied Patti Smith for a performance of People Have the Power at a gig marking 50 years since the rock legend's debut album Horses at the London Palladium on Sunday (12.10.25).

David Bailey has shaped the way we see music, from jazz legends such as Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, to rock and pop icons including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie

As the punk poet prepares to tour and reissue Horses for its 50th anniversary, we count down the best of her rich, rabble-rousing work

Patti Smith has shared the first of four unreleased tracks from the upcoming 50th anniversary reissue of Horses.

Lorde resembles Patti Smith as she introduces her entire new album, Virgin, but the lack of well-known hits lets the energy drop