The female psychopath employs various ruses and schemes as she deceives unwitting targets. Flamboyance plus seduction or use ...

Twelve of the best historical novelists have been longlisted for a £25,000 award named after famous Scottish writer and poet Sir Walter Scott. There Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction ...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a novelist, historian, poet and playwright. The prize is managed by the Abbotsford Trust with support from the Hawthornden Foundation, the Buccleuch Living ...

Officer pleads guilty to federal civil rights charge in 2015 shooting of Walter Scott A former North Charleston police officer who was caught on video fatally shooting a black motorist as he fled ...

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As an acclaimed romantic poet, beloved of Byron, then a best-selling novelist, envied by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott wrote into existence many of the myths and legends we still re-tell and he ...

A NEW annual ticket offer has been launched at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, near Melrose. The Abbotsford Unlimited tickets provide a year of access to the house, gardens, and Witch Corner ...

In 1808, Sir Walter Scott could have been thinking of psychopaths when he wrote the famous line, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” 1 Above all else ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...