Year 11 graphics students at Cowes Enterprise College have met the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens. The students met Ian Dickens to receive their published copies of Spy Cats, Grandude and ...

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition while stranded in an ice cave, and a handwritten manuscript of Oliver Twist are among the items marking 100 years of one of ...

The 1980s was a decade known for the birth of the last of Generation X and big-hair bands. It also produced some of the best ...

Fergie L. Philippe first saw the stage musical “Beauty and the Beast” pretty late, as a freshman in college. Kyra Belle ...

Picks for the fiction, non-fiction and biography books out this month are reviewed in full below. South Korean Nobel laureate ...

This post was updated at 2:37 p.m. on January 18, 2025 The story of Samir Ahmadi’s journey to America could have been written by Charles Dickens. But its author is the 14-year-old Afghan boy who ...

From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...

companions of the feline variety also accompanied Dickens throughout his life, with the author once declaring, “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” In an 1860 letter written to Florence ...

A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum. Behold! Dickens with a moustache! What do we reckon? "A hideous disfigurement," was the verdict of the author's friend and ...

When the weather turns dreary, my mind tends to take a mental vacation . . . by planning a dream getaway. If you’re the same—or if you’re lucky enough to, you know, be planning an actual vacation—you ...

returned to London’s West End once again. Based on the 1836 novel written by Charles Dickens, Cameron Mackintosh’s new musical adaptation tells the story of a young orphan – Oliver – as he ...