Emily Ratajkowski and husband Sebastian Bear-McClard walk their dog

Emily Ratajkowski and husband Sebastian Bear-McClard walk their dog Colombo on empty streets in New York amid coronavirus panic By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 20:39 GMT, 17 March 2020 | Updated: 20:46 GMT, 17 March 2020 Apart from stocking up on provisions and walking her beloved dog Colombo, Emily Ratajkowski has been under self-quarantine. … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Prince’s polo club embroiled in war of words

The polo season hasn’t even begun and already the divots are flying at Ham Polo Club, London’s last remaining ground, where Princes William and Harry and Elle ‘the Body’ Macpherson have all played chukkas. The fencing outside its entrance is festooned with signs listing the names of the club’s hierarchy and juxtaposing them with disobliging … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Sir John Major urges people to ‘pick up a Trollope’

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Sir John Major urges people to ‘pick up a Trollope’ as part of campaign to boost the Victorian writers’ novels By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail Published: 00:00 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 00:34 GMT, 11 March 2020 Fancy picking up a Trollope? Sir John Major does and is urging everyone … Read more

Sebastian Barry and Abi Daré: This week’s best new fiction

From Sebastian Barry’s splendidly old-fashioned A Thousand Moons to an ultimately uplifting debut from Abi Daré, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry                … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Christian Candy stamps his feet over £2million tax on London mansion 

Christian Candy is pictured above with Emily Compton. The luxury property developer has, I can disclose, just got the better of the taxman in the latest round of a protracted battle over almost £2 million stamp duty Among his greatest triumphs was selling a single Knightsbridge apartment for £100 million. But Christian Candy is now … Read more

WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island?

WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island? Sebastian Barry would take Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert on a desert island    The Costa-winning novelist said Sir Philip Sidney’s The Old Arcadia left him cold He said he has no memory of being able to read until he was around eight  By Daily … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Is Sarah Ferguson treading a fine line with pen ‘advert’ aimed at fans? 

Forbidden from exploiting the ‘Sussex Royal’ trademark around the world, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex should take a leaf out of Fergie’s book. For I can disclose that the irrepressible Sarah, Duchess of York, has alighted on a new way to bring home the bacon — by forging a commercial partnership with one of … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Why Charles is the Prince of Sales

Never mind the ‘Kate effect’. Prince Charles is proving just as influential in the world of fashion as the Duchess of Cambridge, as top tailor Emma Willis reveals business has been booming since he started wearing her designs — which include the royal boxer shorts. ‘I’ve been making shirts for him for five-and-a-half years, after … Read more