8 h. ago Jewelled golden hare behind picture book Masquerade could sell for £20,000

Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare in 1979 – with clues to its precise location given in his book Masquerade.

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5 d. ago Ben Stokes calls upcoming Ashes ‘biggest series’ of his England captaincy

The latest instalment in one of sport’s most enduring rivalries begins in Perth on Friday in front of a sell-out 60,000 crowd.

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7 d. ago Rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem expected to sell for up to £120,000

The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience.

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1 week ago Titanic couple’s gold pocket watch could sell for £800,000 at auction

First class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus were portrayed in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic movie

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1 week ago Drive like royalty! Bentley used to chauffeur King Charles is set to sell at auction for £100,000

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne, used by the Monarch for multiple official engagements when he was the Prince of Wales, is predicted to fetch between £80,000 to £100,000

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2 w. ago Drive like royalty! Bentley used to chauffeur King Charles is set to sell at auction for £100,000

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne, used by the Monarch for multiple official engagements when he was the Prince of Wales, is predicted to fetch between £80,000 to £100,000

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3 w. ago ‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst

Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and their literary tastes reflect our timesThe sales patterns for classic novels are normally a fairly predictable business. “Every year it’s the same authors,” says Jessica Harrison, publishing director for Penguin Classics UK. “Austen is always at the very top, and then all the school ones: Orwell, An Inspector Calls, Of Mice and Men, Jane Eyre.”But last year it was different. Penguin’s bestselling classic by far was a little-known novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. White Nights sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK in 2024. It is an angsty story of impossible love, run through with characteristic Dostoevskian gloom. A young man and woman meet on a bridge in St Petersburg on consecutive nights: his love for her is unrequited; she is despairing because the man she really love...

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4 w. ago Titanic passenger’s archive set to sell for more than £100,000

Among the items included in the sale is the only first class passenger list from the stricken liner to have survived.

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