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DARK SECRETS: 16 - The Real Truth

Noir and nostalgia inform Chris Womersley's tale of forgery, grief, and the seamy side of urban life

Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several pages listing past awards received by the author and supplying a range of accolades cut and pasted from reviews of his earlier works.

The Conversation

Scotland's oldest wine seller visited by Charles Dickens opens new Edinburgh shop

Founded in the capital over 200 years ago, Cockburns of Leith have been known to have some very famous customers over the years, with the likes of Sir Walter Scott and even Charles Dickens buying a bottle.

Edinburgh Live

Scotland’s oldest wine merchant opens new premises in Edinburgh

Cockburns of Leith was established in 1796 and counted Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens among its customers

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Hundreds dress in Dickensian period costume to mark Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

This year’s Dickens Festival in Rochester was timed to coincide with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The Independent UK

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride

In our Guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

Schools don’t need to bin Shakespeare – but it’s time for us to teach him differently

Decolonising the curriculum doesn’t mean losing traditional texts, but studying the power imbalances my pupils already experience, says secondary school teacher Nadeine Asbali

The Guardian - UK

Gentleman Jack: Suranne Jones hints a third series might be in the works

We’re keeping our fingers crossed

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From Dover’s cliffs to degraded porn: the astonishing alchemy of Cornelia Parker – review

This fabulous survey of her 40-year career has everything from soiled hankies to exploding sheds, as well as a vampire-like Margaret Thatcher – confirming Parker’s genius for finding poetry in the world around us

The Guardian - UK

Why does truth not seem to matter in India anymore?

Dickens could not have imagined how accurately he would be describing the world more than a hundred and fifty years later. For today we do live in a world where it is at once the best of times and the worst of times, where vaccines work and don’t work, millions…

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The Palace Papers by Tina Brown review – the good, the bad and the indefensible

It’s hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades’ worth of royal scandals

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: Penguin bars causing a p-p-p-problem for PM

BORIS JOHNSON has a lot on his plate at the moment, but it seems another photo is coming back to bite him. Last summer, the Prime Minister exchanged Penguin bars for Tim Tams with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison as they posed for a photo-op after signing a post-Brexit trade…

Evening Standard

Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction

Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys

The Guardian - UK

£30m Shakespeare North Playhouse supported by Johnny Vegas to open in Prescot

Johnny Vegas said: 'Let's make it up north, let's do it up north, let’s have some faith in us up north'

Liverpool Echo

Charles Dickens Museum 'blocked' on TikTok due to 'rude' surname

The museum criticised the move, adding that the novelist's surname was 'a name, not slang'

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Charles Dickens Museum now on TikTok after four-letter word mix-up

Fans of the Charles Dickens Museum can now follow it on TikTok after the social media giant lifted its inadvertent ban on its name.

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Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery

The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes

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A New Book Challenges The Image Of Mass Squalor In Victorian Britain

The editors claim the idea, created by writers such as Charles Dickens, is a myth.

The Guardian - UK

How Dickens’ Pickwick comic serial brought his fans together

Museum exhibit reveals the huge effect the The Pickwick Papers had on readers

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Rediscovered opera’s origins in a novel by Germany’s Charles Dickens

Letter: Generations of older Germans at secondary schools have read Theodore Fontane’s Grete Minde as a set book, writes Harry Schneider

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Kabul child workers, Dickens decoded, and a sex club renaissance

Guardian Australia’s weekday wrap of essential reads and enthralling stories selected by Rafqa Touma

The Guardian - UK

Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did

The writer’s archaic shorthand has baffled experts for over a century. So they launched a deciphering competition for fans – with stunning results that cast new light on his love life and financial peril

The New Daily

On This Day: Renowned author Charles Dickens was born

On this day 210 years ago, renowned British author Charles Dickens was born. His novels offered an unflinching look at the lives of the English poor.

Daily Mirror

Camilla's quick response to girl who asked if she will become Queen 11 years ago

In The Queen's Platinum Jubilee message to the country, she set out her wish for Camilla to be crowned Queen consort, at the Prince of Wales' side

The Guardian - UK

Weatherwatch: the origins of ‘queen’s weather’

Charles Dickens coined the popular expression that associates the monarch with fine weather

The Conversation

Jane Eyre – content warnings are as old as the novel itself

“Read Jane Eyre if you dare” warned papers recently. The Daily Mail had sent a request for information to Salford University and subsequently claimed that the institution had issued “trigger warnings” on a literature module that included Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.

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