Books 2022: A pick of of what’s coming up
Love reading? We’re here with a taste of new titles you might want on your wishlist....
Jean-Marc Vallée: Canadian filmmaker dies aged 58
The director’s works included Dallas Buyers Club, Wild and the TV series Big Little Lies...
Spider-Man: No Way Home becomes first pandemic-era film to top $1bn
It beat Chinese Korean War epic The Battle of Lake Changjin to be the highest grossing film of 2021....
BBC DJ and broadcaster Janice Long dies at 66
Long’s career spanned five decades and she was the first woman to have her own daily show on Radio 1....
TV lookahead: 22 highlights to look out for in 2022
A Lord of the Rings series, a Pamela Anderson movie, and a new Doctor Who are all coming next year....
LadBaby score historic fourth Christmas number one
They surpass the Beatles and the Spice Girls as the act with the most festive chart-toppers in a row....
Ed Sheeran guitar raises over £50,000 in charity raffle
Kellie Myers says she is “thrilled and delighted” by the guitar, which Sheeran has signed....
Murray Head: ‘Unsung at home, but a hero in France’
Murray Head is all but forgotten in the UK, but in his adopted home France he ranks among the greats....
Jon Snow bows out of Channel 4 News after 32 years
The long-serving 74-year-old’s last show is described as “an emotional one for the whole newsroom”....
Joan Didion: US literary icon dies at 87
She was known for chronicling US culture and was a screenwriter for the 1976 film A Star is Born....