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Philip Hoare enjoys a defence of a fearsome but misunderstood fish

Julian Evans admires an illuminating study of a dark star of 20th-century literature

Gemma Arterton says she has posed for her last 'sexy' men's magazine shoot as she takes control of her career.

Isabel Mohan reviews the first episode of the new series of BBC Three's supernatural series, Being Human

Isabel Mohan reviews Cricklewood Greats, The Thick of It's Peter Capaldi's spoof documentary on BBC Four

Ed Cumming reviews the second episode of the 18th series of Top Gear.

US singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey goes straight in at number one in the UK album chart with her debut release Born To Die.

Gerard Depardieu is to star in a movie about the sex scandal that caused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign.

Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin says children are not being taught to read with the attention span necessary to appreciate the novelist's works.

Film-maker Zalman King, best known for writing and producing the hit movie Nine and a Half Weeks, dies aged 70.

Bee Gees star Robin Gibb says he is making a "spectacular" recovery from cancer and that he is feeling "fantastic".

The BBC's director general Mark Thompson has accused the Iranian authorities of intimidating those working for its Persian service.

The artist Pablo Picasso transformed himself from a Bohemian artist into a quintessential gentleman after developing a love for English fashion and style, a new exhibition will reveal.

She is the most photographed woman in the world, but now, the Duchess of Cambridge has plans to display her own skills with a camera.

Madame Defarge, from A Tale Of Two Cities, is a one of Charles Dickens's meanest characters and is the fifth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.

After 40 years in the job, why is Billy Connolly walking off stage in a huff, wonders William Langley.