Every cloud has a silver lining, right?

WHEN Rachel Joyce writes a novel or a radio play, she often cuts out minor characters, or minimises their role.

A previously unseen letter which features Jane Austen’s first mention of her upcoming novel Pride And Prejudice has gone on public display.

Rachel Joyce

There is a lot to be learnt from the phrases used to describe your child’s class work. Caroline Delaney asks some teachers to translate

BECAUSE we live on an island, and because every travel brochure ever printed plonks a bikini-clad siren on its cover, we tend to associate holidays with the coast.

The photos of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson being grabbed around the throat by her husband are disturbing. He said he was just being ‘playful’. It’s not acceptable behaviour, says Barbara Scully

Cork actress Maxine Linehan is in a better position than most to channel the spirit of Charlotte Brontë.

AT the moment, there’s just no stopping Michael Fassbender.

MIA WASIKOWSKA brings a luminous quality to the supposedly plain heroine of Jane Eyre (12A), but that’s one of the few caveats worth mentioning in relation to Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel.

At the moment, there’s just no stopping Michael Fassbender.

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the summer ahead.

Pinewood Shepperton studios, home to the Harry Potter and James Bond films, has received an £87.8m (€99.4m) takeover bid from the company run by billionaire investor John Whittaker.

DERMOT WELD and Pat Smullen, enjoying a real purple patch, are the combination to have on your side at Naas tonight.

Indiana Gal will face eight rivals when she seeks Group Three honours in the Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday.

MOIQEN gets the vote to beat likely favourite Washington Irving in the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow.

JIM BOLGER and his stable jockey, Keving Manning, could be the combination to follow at the first stage of Derby weekend at the Curragh this evening.

The biopic of Jane Eyre writer Charlotte Bronte has attracted a star line-up.

Singer Alanis Morissette has come to the rescue of the Broadway musical Jane Eyre, based on the Charlotte Bronte novel.

The Producers, Mel Brooks’ cult film which he has transformed into a smash-hit musical comedy, has received 15 Tony Award nominations, the most for any show in Broadway history.