Arts

There are no decorations up in my house yet. No baubles on the tree, no paperchains festooning the shelves, no tinsel glinting in pine and cinnamon scented candlelight.

All Dido Jones ever wanted was a different kind of mother and a different life…

Take a peek behind the scenes of the enthralling new Fantastic Beasts film, The Crimes of Grindelwald, and get ready for the Christmas showing of an animated TV mini-series of Richard Adams’ classic Watership Down with two exciting tie-in books.

If it’s December, Slade must be doing the rounds again, in the post Holder/Lea configuration they’ve worked in for 25-plus years. MALCOLM WYATT got the lowdown from guitar legend Dave Hill

Meet a young woman determined to find a new life after a terrible tragedy, enjoy a Christmas canine crisis in snow-filled Devon, and travel back in time to drama on the windswept hills of County Durham.

Take a close-up, pop-up look at the workings of the human body, meet people who turned their failures into glorious triumphs, and share adventures with a donkey who longs to be an astronaut.

There can be no better way to get ready for Christmas than in the company of Milly Johnson, the queen of feel-good fiction who has turned rom-coms into an art form.

It’s been quite the autumn for dramas based around families and secrets. We’ve had ITV’s police drama Dark Heart, BBC’s undercover cop drama Informer and Channel 5’s Irish-set family drama Blood.

Christmas is coming and there are plenty of spectacular new children’s books guaranteed to put an extra sparkle into the festive season.

Autumn nights just got brighter with two inspirational novels from Danielle Steel, one of the world’s most popular authors who has sold almost a billion books since 1972.

There’s a plot to kill the Emperor of Rome and just 24 hours to save him… can one man meet this epic challenge?

It’s easy to forget that VE Day in May 1945 was not the end of the suffering for millions of people living on a continent ravaged by six years of conflict.

Enjoy an enchanting new journey into Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, meet a mouse on a mission, enter a magical world of macabre snowglobes, and spend Christmas with the Moomins in a fantastic festive selection from Macmillan Children’s Books.