Date:
25-01-2013
Author:
Antony Billington
This Sunday sees the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Besides selling over 20 million copies worldwide, it has been brought to life in many adaptations, including a Bollywood cinema version, an Israeli TV series, and a zombie mash-up...
Date:
14-12-2012
Author:
Sarah-Jane Marshall
When you choose your Christmas cards, how much thought do you give to the image on the front?
Date:
28-09-2012
Author:
Mark Greene
Ian McEwan is widely regaled as one of our leading novelists. His latest offering, Sweet Tooth, is a cold war spy thriller set in 1970s, recession-hit Britain. Certainly, it rattles along and its critical reception, if not ecstatic, has been warm...
Date:
21-09-2012
Author:
Rachel Giles
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. So begins J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic children’s tale, published 75 years ago today, of the diminutive Bilbo Baggins and his perilous journey across Wilderland with 13 dwarves...
Date:
20-07-2012
Author:
Jason Gardner
No doubt you’ve found yourself at a sports day egging on your child, or watched someone running for a train or taxi, or have jogged along a beach, and have forced your vocal cords...