One of Dickens’ favourite topics was the Family, and so it’s not surprising to hear that he had a very large one himself. It might surprise you though, to hear ...
If you know of a friend who’s writing a novel, you may just want to ask if you’re in it at all. If they say yes, then you might need ...
To mark this year’s anniversary celebration of Dickens’s birth, Vintage Classics and Ebury are hosting a Dickens Day at Foyles Charing Cross Road on Saturday, 25 February from 10.30am to 5.00pm. A host ...
Families are like boxes of chocolates. They turn up around Christmas, full of joyful truffles and pralines, and then six days and five boxes later you’re furiously sick of them ...
Anyone familiar with Bathsheba in the Bible and depictions in art will have an insight into her namesake’s character in Zoë Heller’s novel.
We all know that novelists devote a staggering ...
‘Tis the haunting season, and inspired by the Charles Dickens Museum’s upcoming ghost story readings, Litro reads a story a day from a collection of Dickens’ many ghostly ...