Property This article is more than 8 months oldStately home ‘used for James Bond scenes’ goes on sale for £75mThis article is more than 8 months oldDenham Place in Buckinghamshire being sold by multimillionaire Mike Jatania A 13-bedroom Grade-I listed stately home said to have been where some James Bond scenes were filmed has been put up for sale with a price tag of £75m – which would make it one of the most expensive properties outside London.

Where to start withBooksHaving long been tipped as the next Nobel laureate, the Norwegian writer has this year been awarded the prize. For those new to the acclaimed playwright and novelist, here are some good ways in Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature The novelist, playwright, essayist and poet Jon Fosse, 64, is this year’s winner of the Nobel prize in Literature. He is now set to become the world’s best-known Norwegian writer of contemporary fiction, perhaps even overtaking his former student, Karl Ove Knausgård.

Asteroids This article is more than 11 months oldAsteroid lights up sky over Channel creating shooting star effectThis article is more than 11 months oldScientists predict asteroid strike for only seventh time as 1-metre object enters Earth’s atmosphere An asteroid has lit up the sky over the Channel in the early morning after scientists accurately predicted its strike – only the seventh time that has happened. The European Space Agency said on Sunday night that the 1-metre-sized object would enter Earth’s atmosphere and strike the surface around the French city of Rouen.

OperaYou need more than a good voice to sing the countertenor role of the sun-worshipping Egyptian leader. But it’s changed my life ‘Picture the audience naked.” The popular wisdom for overcoming stage fright was turned on its head the first time I was unveiled – body waxed, head shaved, and completely nude – in front of thousands of fully clothed opera-goers at the London Coliseum, in 2016. It was the premiere of a monumental new production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten by Phelim McDermott, for English National Opera.

The ObserverPablo PicassoBefore 1960, Pablo Picasso and modernism were more often lampooned than loved in this country. But all that changed when the Tate's huge Picasso exhibition caused a sensation and changed the course of British art for everIn the summer of 1960 Britain was overwhelmed by what the newspapers were inevitably calling Picassomania. The Tate gallery's Picasso exhibition opened in June, the most extensive retrospective of the artist's work ever staged, and from that moment the cultural life of the nation would never be quite the same again.