The love between the two characters of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ was based on real life, but the truth was repressed both by biographers and by Boris Pasternak’s family. That has now changed, writes Sue Leonard.

Harper Lee isn’t the only author who wrote a worldwide bestseller yet decided not to try to repeat that success. Brian Moss and Lorraine Murphy look at other members of this elite club

WHEN “Titanic” hit the screen in 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio became the hottest young actor around, carrying the $250 million production — the most expensive ever made until that point — on his slim shoulders. He was only 22-years-old, a star of edgy art films like The Basketball Diaries and Total Eclipse.