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In The Siege Helen Dunmore described in riveting detail one family's struggle to survive the 1941-42 siege of Leningrad. Her new novel is a sequel and picks up exactly 10 years after The Siege left off. The war is over, but Anna's hopes that something good must come out of the suffering have been dashed.

In 1988 Abramovi and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle, but this act of love and performance art was doomed from the start From the moment in 1976 that Serbian and German performance artists Marina Abramovi and Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, who died last month aged 76) clapped

The plot and photography may fall short, but the tension between the two leads gives this horror a racy magnetism Adding a racy dose of queer eroticism to the suspenseful dread of the horror film, Alex Birrells second feature settles on a familiar location: an isolated cabin nestled in the deep, dark woods. In the

Is the Tour de France winner endowed with a supreme athletic physiology by a genetic freak? Or does he just work harder than the rest? There is circumstantial evidence for the freak theory. Armstrong has particularly long thigh bones, for instance, making him biomechanically suited to cycling. His heart is a third larger than the

Warm tributes were paid to the long-serving host of the flagship Radio 4 show With a specially baked cake from Mary Berry and a blue plaque in her honour on her favourite work chair, Dame Jenni Murray acknowledged that it felt very, very strange to be hosting her final edition of Womans Hour after 33