Her childhood heroine was Bette Davis, and she could have turned into another Doris Day. Instead Gena Rowlands developed a fine line in playing women on the edge. But she's not as crazy as her characters, she tells Horatia Harrod.

There have been remakes, parodies and attempts at a sequel to one of the greatest love stories of all time - and Most have been spectacularly unsuccessful. As Trevor Nunn's musical version opens in the West End, Helen Taylor asks

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Alberto Manguel's With Borges.

The Telegraph (Calcutta) reports on bookselling in Calcutta, in Fact and fiction, as: About 20 bookstores are scheduled to open in Calcutta over the next two years.

In the Western Mail Rhodri Clark reports that Fiction from Wales translated to meet Asia demand.

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The supernatural frogs falling from the sky, mysterious airships, spontaneous human combustion... it all fascinated Charles Fort, whose appetite for the paranormal lives on today in sci-fi, conspiracy theories and that quirky chronicle of the unknown, the Fortean Times. By