The uncertainty is a new point of stress. One night, Samir cried out in his sleep. In a dream, his mother had died. Four in ...

A teenager has been arrested after the gravestone created for the Charles Dickens character, Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed ... of causing criminal damage on Monday (January 27). The teen has been ...

As a child, the author imagined he belonged to a family of bears, nicknaming his father Clarence “Da Bear,” his mother Grace “Fweetie” (or “Sweetie”), and his older sister Marcelline “Sissy Bear.” ...

The author on her new novel, The Glass House; her penchant for writing ‘why-done-its’; and the rawness of the teen years ...

The big books. The ambitious books, the life-changing books, the long books, the time-consuming books, the dense books. Not ...

In 1980s West Germany, American teen transplant Jenny feels suffocated ... necessary light on the dark corners that the original Charles Dickens’ tale was all too content to ignore Publisher ...

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 his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...

I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at ...