Popular books have a way of finding their way into homes across the globe. Indeed, certain books transcend geographical boundaries and entice readers from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds.

The Queen visited the Charles Dickens Museum to celebrate its 100th anniversary, exploring Dickens’ historic home, viewing rare manuscripts, ...

Alan Moore Within London lies another London. An older London. A paradigm London. A Long London. Long London is a shadow city ...

The actor told the Queen that he first saw it on stage when ... Camilla spoke of the 'thrill' of revisiting Charles Dickens' revealing her favourite book was A Tale of Two Cities as she met ...

Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1853 episodic novel Cranford does something similar minus the cattiness or malicious intent. It takes us ...

Matthew Pearl gained notice for penning novels centered on literary figures thrust into historical mysteries/thrillers. “The ...

He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?

It was a sensation that lasted for much of the time I spent with the man, the novelist named Peter Grainger, and with his ...

In both Charles ... Dickens’ time. Fagin the Thief tracks Jacob from growing up in a poverty-stricken Jewish enclave in London to eventually becoming a cunning criminal. The first part of ...

The sale price of a Bible that was donated to a charity shop has left workers “speechless” after it achieved £56,000 at an ...

The first line is the deepest. From flourishes of excitement just like Charles Dickens ‘It was the best of times ... opening ...