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Literature has long portrayed messed-up families. As poet Philip Larkin famously wrote, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do.”

3/5 Ava Pickett’s new adaptation is not for purists, but it is very funny

The John Moores prize names its next stars, Renaissance booty is uncovered in Bath and a lover’s brothers plan a beheading

In earlier interviews, including a 2003 documentary, Abby and Brittany openly spoke about wanting to have families of their own.

Living her best Mia Thermopolis life.

Scottish actor Brian Cox has given a scathing review of the film Braveheart, calling it “bollocks”.

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Curtseying by day, moshing in a Danish merch shirt by night.

From the pompous vanity of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion (1817), to the shallow reading habits of Isabella in Northanger Abbey (1817), few characters in the works of Jane Austen are spared the gentle satire of her famously ironic narrative voice. Similarly, some of her best remembered characters, like Elizabeth…

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