Idris Elba has earned his first Bafta television awards nomination.

SCOTLAND: A student and his dog donned graduation robes after the pet helped his owner complete his university degree.

BY this time of year they were dog-eared. Full of scribbles. The first one you had attempted, months ago, had seemed so simple and trivial. You had bigger fish/questions to fry/answer.

The TV-adaptation of Mantel’s novels excelled, but steadily lost viewing figures,, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey return for a third season of House of Cards on Netflix from Friday.

Stephen Fry is Gay Byrne’s guest on The Meaning of Life on RTÉ One tomorrow.

Forget about The Tudors. A new series captures what it was really like in the era of Henry VIII, writes

Miranda Richardson has taken a swipe at Britain’s “hideous” approach to success as the actress turned literary judge announced that Hilary Mantel has been shortlisted for another major book prize.

Hilary Mantel said she was left “weak at the knees” after becoming the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice after her novel Bring up the Bodies was named the best book of the year.

An author who was turned down by traditional publishers has been pitted against previous winner Hilary Mantel for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Wolf Hall’ is being adapted for BBC Two.

The novelist’s life changed when she won the Man Booker prize.

Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen

Bookies’ favourite Hilary Mantel scooped the Man Booker Prize for Fiction tonight for her “demanding” novel about Henry VIII’s adviser Thomas Cromwell.

A HISTORICAL novel about Henry VIII’s adviser, Thomas Cromwell, leads the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

Irish authors have missed out on a place in the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize.

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for Rumpole of the Bailey actor Leo McKern, who has died at the age of 82.