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Some famous faces are members of the Garrick Club.

‘Indefensible’: The star-studded London club that won’t let women join

The Garrick Club has a membership that should embrace progress, but it’s men-only.

  • Mark Landler

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‘I am just sad a lot of the time’: A former Star Trek captain on his life on earth

From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond, Patrick Stewart has come a long way from his tough Yorkshire childhood – but a melancholy still remains.

  • Jane Wheatley
Column 8 granny dinkus

Boomers are boss, Bard none

There really is nothing like a Dame.

Judi Dench as Perdita in The Winter’s Tale in 1969 Royal Shakespeare Company production.

All the world’s a Shakespearean stage for Judi Dench

She has been performing Shakespeare since the late 1950s. Now Judi Dench has distilled her experience with the Bard in a remarkable book.

  • Peter Craven
Geri Halliwell-Horner: “I think there’s something really honest and beautiful when a woman still looks like herself.”

Geri Halliwell-Horner at 51 by Spice Girls super fan Dolly Alderton

From working-class pop star to country novelist, the former “Ginger Spice” is the queen of reinvention. She talks about girl power and why she’ll never complain about the ’90s.

  • Dolly Alderton
Judy Moran outside court in 2008, it seems unlikely she will see outside jail walls.

Judy Moran: A fading underworld matriarch ... or maybe just a myth

The underworld author-turned-killer-turned-inmate is two-thirds through her murder sentence. But with failing health, she’s unlikely to see outside prison walls.

  • John Silvester
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Kate (Jenny Seagrove), Maddie (Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips), Cassie (Kelly Preston) and Liz (Sally Phillips) go on a European adventure in the rom-com Off the Rails. 

Kelly Preston’s final film is a familiar British feel-good movie

The actor’s death adds a sadly ironic postscript to Off the Rails, which is about the premature death of a close friend.

  • Sandra Hall
A selection of Ralph Heimans’ portraits.

Ralph Heimans: royalty’s go-to painter

His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.

  • Bevan Shields
American Dan Gookin, who wrote the first Dummies book, on computing, in 1991. The series has since expanded to tackle subjects ranging from beekeeping to Shakespeare.

Dumb luck? No way. The billion-dollar smarts of the 'For Dummies' empire

Nearly 30 years ago, a how-to guide called DOS For Dummies was published. The reaction to the user-friendly and accessible book led to a global phenomenon.

  • Tim Elliott

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