Inside Matthew Perry's relationship with Briana Brancato: Hisassistant and best friend pays tribute to the Friends star The Wimbledon Poisoner is not just a hilarious, fabulously entertaining read, but also a solid, marvelous work of art – indeed, the author mentions in the novel the fact that comedy can be as “serious” and relevant, if not in these exact words, format as tragedy – with frequent references to the Russian classic characters, their guilt, penchant for confessing their crimes – murders in the case of Raskolnikov – which is not the style of the hero of this glorious book, Henry Farr. From heartthrob to hair flop! Gerard Butler, 53, sports an unflattering blond hairpiece as he films new crime thriller In The Hand Of Dante in Rome Why Margot Robbie is getting slammed for her Halloween costume as she breaks one important rule: 'She's treading a thin line' Marks & Spencer teams up with charity to make meals for homeless people - instead of just donating the...

Broadcast details First broadcast Sunday 11th December 1994 at 9:10pm on BBC One Most recent repeats David Schwimmer is spotted walking somberly to his NYC apartment after paying tribute to Friends co-star Matthew Perry Wimbledon is synonymous with suburbia – the capital’s best known suburb simply because of a tennis tournament. It lies in south-west London at the end of the tube’s District Line. If there’s anything else Wimbledon is known for, it’s Nigel Williams’s ‘Wimbledon trilogy’. Of these the first The Wimbledon Poisoner - the story of solicitor Henry Farr’s clumsy attempts to kill his wife - is the most well-known. Williams adapted it for BBC television (it starred Robert Lindsay and Alison Steadman). The most renowned of his dozen or more novels, it is the epitome of the author’s curiously ambiguous take on suburban life.If the idea of the book is to show a middle class white guy moaning about every aspect of his life (aspects which he has full control over and which aren’t even that bad given his middle class privilege), and for that character to not be sympathetic at all, then the author achieved his aim. I understand there’s a bit of building up a picture of the middle class family of the time but the use of the word i will only say is a shortened almost racist connotation towards people of pakistan i don’t really ever want to read in my books. It's a scream! Halloween night partygoers brave the cold with some outrageous outfits in Newcastle, Leeds...

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Kelly Osbourne shares an adorable rare snap with her son Sidney, 11 months, as she sports bright red nose and teases their Halloween costumes Matthew Perry's co-star Rosanna Arquette pays tribute to 'kind and lovely' Friends actor and recalls his love of grape soda after death aged 54 The story builds well on this initial premise - ordinary suburban Englishman decides to turn poisoner, and the difficulties Henry encounters in actually practically following this through: In his earlier novels, Nigel Williams’s engagement with central London is critical, portraying the city sometimes as soulless and at other times as positively dangerous. In his fourth novel, ​ Witchcraft (1987), Williams introduces suburbia as a positive alternative. For the narrator, a screenplay writer called Jamie Matheson, Putney - where Williams made his own home, and among the most central of London districts with a claim to suburbia - represents a refuge from the dangers of the city. This refuge is compromised however by Jamie’s extra-marital affair, and by an obsession with a Puritan witchfinder which becomes so pronounced that Jamie comes to see himself as ‘The Beast of Putney’. Revealed: The banks least likely to pay out if you get scammed (and the ones that reimburse the most cash)

Helen Flanagan joins former Corrie co-star Sally Dynevor's daughter Hattie on glamorous night out at Sexy Fish United Nations Human Rights New York Office Director Craig Mokhiber RESIGNS in protest of UN's handling of... Banged Up review: This prison 'experiment' is just a shabby excuse to torment celebs, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS The Wimbledon Trilogy consists of three books written by Nigel Williams set in Wimbledon, London and published by Faber & Faber: Age-defying Elle MacPherson, 59, confirms she gets fillers and Botox as the supermodel gushes about Australian facial injector to the starsI replaced coffee cream with my own breast milk to catch out my thieving colleagues: 'Don't steal next time'