Though Bard plays an important role in both versions of the story by killing Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch), he's in very ...

Four centuries on, his influence echoes through not only stage and screen, but also in the pages of novels that reimagine, ...

Now, 36 years on, Paul was back on home turf to launch his book about the case, A Spy in the Family, at Bard Books in Roman Road. “Coming back here was giving a nod to the East End,” Paul to ...

He was chief bard in the courts of at least three kings of Britain, and is associated with the Book of Taliesin, a text from the 10th century containing his poems. The life of Taliesin was ...