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79 days ago

Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’

The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him

My earliest reading memory
I read The Lord of the Rings b…

90 days ago

Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests

Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy

They were places of crushing hardship for the poorest people in Britain for centuries but a …

3 months ago

Plot Twist: I am related to the real-life Oliver

Oliver Twist is one of the author’s best known creations. But for Nicholas Blincoe, the story is much closer to home. He reveals an astonishing family history

For almost my entire life, I’ve known the…

Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits

Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it

Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, th…

Scrooge to be portrayed as a 'British Indian who hates refugees' in new version of A Christmas Carol - with Big Bang Theory star set to lead multi-cultural cast in Bollywood-inspired adaptation

The musical, which is directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, will feature a 'British-Indian' man named Sood as the lead character.

‘It’s a brigade of old gits!’ Miriam Margolyes, Andy Linden and the older performers storming Edinburgh

At a festival so often dominated by bold young talent, it’s veteran performers stealing the spotlight this year. We meet them – from household names to octogenarian newcomers

Miriam Margolyes is ensco…

5 months ago

Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer

An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works

As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary…

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