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Clarice Cliff by Lynn Knight 336pp, Bloomsbury, 20 Comprehensively Clarice Cliff by Greg Slater and Jonathan Brough 448pp, Thames & Hudson, 48 One of the photographs in Lynn Knight's evocative life of Clarice Cliff shows a line-up of nine girls, fashionably dressed underneath their painting pinnies. These are the "Bizarre girls" (pronounced "Bizair"), who decorated

John Buultjens fell in love with cycling when he saw ET as a kid. Now he hopes a film about his life will inspire a new generation By Jonathan Drennan for Behind the Lines John Buultjens, a Glaswegian who made his name and fame by riding and designing BMX bikes, is standing outside his home

Bronze coins dating from fourth century are in exceptional state of preservation, Italys culture ministry says An Italian divers sighting of something metallic near the coast of Sardinia has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of Roman bronze coins, Italys culture ministry has said.

While I understand that X'ed Out, the new graphic novel by Charles Burns, might not be everyone's cup of tea, it is nerd alert! most definitely mine. One of the books that first made me fall in love with comics was Burns's 2005 dystopian creep-fest Black Hole and I have been devoted to

She was wealthy, idiosyncratic and in search of love; he was younger and deep in debt how the marriage of Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli broke every rule in the book On the night of 12 April 1867, Benjamin Disraeli experienced his greatest political triumph, the passing of the 1867 Reform Act. Jubilant Tory