Theatre

Shakespeare – the hoodie with the headphones

To modern readers, many 1930s writers might as well be using Shakespearian English, such is the grace and complexity of their language. Is this why Elizabeth Jenkins has disappeared from bookshops?

'Maybe one day we could be the English Matt Damon and Ben Affleck...'

Independent Bath Literary Festival

It's not just the return of Edina and Patsy – there's Downton, the Doctor, and Dickens. Gerard Gilbert presents his pick of the seasonal small screen

1. Occupy Wall Street.

The invitation had arrived, we had made the journey up the M1, we even had a glass of champagne. But we still weren’t quite sure what we were doing there.

The earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript, a hand-written draft of a novel she never finished, sold for £993,250 at auction in London.

The earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript, a handwritten draft for a book that was never published, sold for £993,250 ($1.6 million) at Sotheby's today.

The earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript, a heavily corrected draft of the unfinished novel The Watsons, is expected to fetch up to £300,000 when it is auctioned in July.