Nicholas HoultFrom starring opposite Hugh Grant aged 11 to joining the X-Men, does nothing faze the actor? Well, there was one scene for his latest role ...
Preparing for his role as Emperor Peter III of Russia in the TV show The Great, Nicholas Hoult wondered if he should go for the accent. The 31-year-old had just finished filming The Current War, a movie in which he played the inventor Nikola Tesla, and it struck him he could, without too much effort, repurpose his Serbian into a passable Russian. Read More...
Skiing holidaysSki touring used to be a gnarly pursuit for beardy blokes but new itineraries in the French Alps offer a safer – but still arduous – way to enjoy the sport
Traditional downhill skiing may be all glitz and glamour, but the biggest growth area in winter sports at the moment requires a certain amount of hard graft and is as likely to have you dripping with sweat as swooping elegantly downhill. Read More...
The ObserverCrime fictionReviewThe author of bestseller The Appeal returns with a complex thriller that includes brilliant pastiches of Enid Blyton
Janice Hallett topped charts last year with her debut, The Appeal, a thriller about a murder in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood told entirely in a mix of texts, emails and documents. Hallett’s second novel, The Twyford Code, is innovative in a different way: it is a transcription of 200 audio files that have been found on the iPhone 4 of missing ex-convict Steven Smith. Read More...