LIFE’S A CIRCUS—Lady Eleanor Smith —Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Born “dead” and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a “cottagy” house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith ...

A Channel 4 documentary about travellers featuring animal cruelty and alleged child abuse has prompted almost 300 complaints, and has been criticised by animal protection groups. Gypsy Blood, part of ...

Cecilia Woloch’s new book, “Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem,” is aptly subtitled. The poems have an impassioned, wandering, breathless style, as if the author were relating a harrowing tragedy, a story that ...

Gypsy Blood examines the culture that Gypsy and Traveller fathers hand on to their children, which many non-gypsy view as overly violent, exploring its impact on two fathers and their young sons.

Vampires, a succubus and dead spirits inhabit this confusing and rushed series opener. Half-gypsy Carnival fights the occasional otherworldly creature while working as a fortune-teller. Carnival also ...