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Celebrity drama was just as intense!

Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Some have been going strong for decades.

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

The capital’s first ever luxury hotel still offers unbeatable service for a once-in-lifetime stay, finds Joanna Whitehead

Hollywood stars sometimes marry each other. Sometimes they marry each other over and over. All of the stars on this list have been married to multiple famous people.

And it’s the perfect countryside retreat

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

A truly scary story never really leaves you. It lurks in long evening shadows, calls out through mysterious bumps in the night and blows down your neck whenever you feel a sudden shiver. With Halloween approaching, we asked six of our academic experts to tell us about the scariest book…

The matinee idol’s death in 1985 changed the public’s perception of Aids. Yet in life, finds Ryan Gilbey, the golden age actor was anything but an activist

It’s very hard to get excited about Taylor Swift and her rumoured American footballer love interest, while Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are a snooze, and the less said about Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, the better. Celebrity couples never used to be this dull, writes Jessie Thompson