JULIA SAWALHA has been through her share of heartbreaks over the years, but now she’s decided the single life is absolutely fabulous – as Pam Francis reports
Sunday 9 November 2014
Julia Sawalha: 'I've learned so much from my mistakes'
JULIA SAWALHA has been through her share of heartbreaks over the years, but now she’s decided the single life is absolutely fabulous – as Pam Francis reports
My DIY paradise and Girl Friday
YOU don’t have to be as wealthy as Sir Richard Branson to own a private island...artist Richart Sowa simply built one out of plastic bottles.
Party time: The best party accessories
GOT the frock? Now show it off with the perfect accessories – from top to toe
Get this: Quirky and stylish accessories we want this week
THERE'S something for every budget in this week’s must-have selection
The greatest gifts: Pampering presents for Christmas
OUR BEAUTY EDITOR picks her Christmas wish-list
Digital generation: Have children's toys had their chips?
WITH the demand for hi-tech presents sure to hit new heights this year, should we be worried that playtime has gone digital? Not necessarily, as Rachel Carlyle reports
James Nesbitt on The Missing: 'This role was an opportunity to test myself'
JAMES NESBITT had a blast in the new Hobbit film The Battle of the Five Armies. But as the single dad of an abducted child in BBC1’s The Missing, he has a serious point to prove – as Karen Hockney reports
All I want for Christmas: Is it time to rein in our shopping lists?
SANTA'S shopping list seems to get longer ever year – so is it time we reined it in, wonders Rachel Carlyle
In the closet with X Factor singer Fleur East
MIXING street with chic, the X Factor singer always hits the right note
Passing Bells was 'one of the saddest war dramas we've seen'
DESPITE dodgy German accents Passing Bells was profound First World War drama, meanwhile Downton's servants are experiencing a property boom and C-listers are learning to sing with Gareth Malone
Dance Til Dawn review: Inventive, passionate and romantic
STRICTLY's Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone meld ballroom and the best of stage dancing in this spectacular tango show
Opera round-up: Mozart's Idomeneo, La Boheme and Donizetti's Les Martyrs
MOZART's opera gets a brutal kicking by Austrian director Martin Kusej; Jonathan Miller's La Boheme gets a well-deserved third revival at the ENO; virtuoso singing of Donizetti's work makes the upcoming CD even more exciting
Black comedy and strong acting in Kristin Wiig's The Skeleton Twins
SNL alumni Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader reunite to play the estranged, suicidal titular characters in a story of deception and disillusion in suburbia
Keira Knightley is 'her most relaxed and appealing' in Say When
LYNN SHELTON's engaging romance about a twentysomething who's not ready to grow up is performed beautifully by a strong cast
Christopher Nolan's 'barmy' Interstellar is a narrative 'black hole'
YOU need a pHd in physics to understand the Inception director's bewildering and overblown tale of Matthew McConaughey saving the world
David Mitchell's Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse review
PEEP Show actor and writer David Mitchell has turned his ideas – which make pithy, clever Observer columns - into a rather unsatisfying book
Peter Carey's cyber-terrorism and Aussie politics novel Amnesia 'crackles with energy'
THE brilliant Australian author explores digital activism, legacy journalism, US political interference and Australia's collective forgetfulness about its past in this probing but rollicking novel
Anne De Courcy's Margot At War: Love And Betrayal In Downing Street review
WITH a Prime Minister besotted with a younger woman and political clashes at home and abroad, De Courcy gives us an intriguing glimpse into the turbulent pre-Great War years of Margot Asquith's Downing Street
Short story: No Problemo by Christopher Matthew
WHAT kind of antisocial maniac would start drilling at nine in the evening? Not the kind he was expecting, that’s for sure…
Benedict Cumberbatch cracks the code to make Bletchley Park a hit
SHERLOCK star Benedict Cumberbatch has a new set of fans in staff at Bletchley Park, where the astonishing work of codebreakers helped to win the Second World War.
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