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12 days ago

Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane Austen

My earliest reading memory
At a secondhan…

19 days ago

London mansion once home to Charles Dickens at centre of £17m court battle between multimillionaire divorcee and her high society bank

Deborah Fiorentino, 63, the former wife of both Italian aristocrat Giovanni Fiorentino and celebrity British divorce lawyer Raymond 'Jaws' Tooth, could lose her Regent's Park mansion.

29 days ago

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow review – the story of America’s first literary celebrity, from the author of Hamilton

A definitive new biography takes in adventures on the Mississippi, racist stereotypes and get-rich-quick schemes

In his lifetime, Mark Twain was the greatest literary celebrity the world had ever know…

57 days ago

The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job

The famous author tells his son and their cat the story of Jesus in this mixed-bag family animation, voiced by an impressive cast

This syrupy cartoon account of the life of Jesus (voiced by Oscar Isa…

70 days ago

Charles appears in high spirits while visiting new exhibition at Somerset House while Camilla looks thrilled by tour of Charles Dickens' former home

King Charles was full of laughs during a visit to Somerset House on Wednesday wile across town Queen Camilla was 'moved' by tour of prolific author Charles Dickens' former London home.

3 months ago

‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British liter…

Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children

At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia

In…

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