The dwarves have all the best songs. Whether they are singing raucous ditties about smashing Bilbo’s best crockery or low, mournful…

The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…

Fiona Stewart find worlds of light and shade in her review of the film Bridge to Terabithia. Every day before catching the bus to school…

Reviews of some of Joanne Harris' novels, including Chocolat.

English literary history is a curious thing. And one especially curious thing about it is that it contains very little of importance which…

Cricket is the new football, or so they say. This year’s [2005] Ashes Test Series between England and Australia has defined the…