Communication a pivotal part of the game, though sometimes not with journalists

Emily Kane moves through the paper and finds some good news – it suits her very well

Higher level exam judged to be a good test of students’ abilities overall

He hates being told what to do, but Carey Mulligan’s costar in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ joined the film world nevertheless – and is now Hollywood’s intense, go-to period hunk

25 years after the release of the film version of Sam Hanna Bell’s book, Eileen Battersby examines one of Ireland’s finest novels

Private sector piety is incompatible with faith in the adult Christ

Centenary of the birth of the Welsh poet, who ‘manages to juxtapose the sonorous tones of the pulpit with the intimate squeak of a mouse’

‘It is not easy to like,’ the candid author says of her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Lowland’

His books sold and continue to sell in the tens of thousands, while hordes of ‘Heaneyboppers’ flocked to his readings

Software is bound to throw up absurd anomalies