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I remember reading Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. I almost put it down ... over — because it had pulled me into the world of the author’s creating and wholly immersed me. An old colleague ...

The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, author Damian Barr goes in search of the legacy and lasting influence of one of Scotland's great historical figures, novelists and poets ...

The interview is the subject of this two-part Channel 4 drama by James Graham, and starring Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan.

Officer pleads guilty to federal civil rights charge in 2015 shooting of Walter Scott A former North Charleston police officer who was caught on video fatally shooting a black motorist as he fled ...

“It was so fun and I loved working with Ben,” Scott said of Walter Mitty. “So when [Severance] came up years later, I jumped at the chance to work with him again.” In the hit dystopian ...

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Harriet Walter highly recommends tying the knot in later life, as she said she has "the best time" in her marriage to actor Guy Paul. The Killing Eve star, 74, married Paul, 75, in 2011 when they were ...

To my mind, however, the man who invented Scottish tourism was our greatest literary figure of the early 19th century, Sir Walter Scott. Apart from his invention of tartanry that marked the visit of ...

The symbolism was plain to see. Five years on from Brexit, the British prime minister on Monday was brought back into the club for one night only, invited to an informal dinner with the EU's 27 ...