YOU WONT BELIEVE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Herbert Pocket is far from a minor character in Great Expectations

Letters: Readers take issue with Herbert Pocket being deemed a ‘nobody’ in an article by Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

40 Times People Read A Book And Were In Awe

In need of good book recommendations? Check out this list.

Bored Panda · May 9, 2025

Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’

The Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime writer

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025

Joe Haines obituary

Press secretary to Harold Wilson in the late 60s and 70s who went on to work for the Daily Mirror

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2025

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2025

Grantchester's Rishi Nair reveals the shocking thing he had to do on set on his first day

Rishi Nair on how new vicar Alphy Kotteram soon makes his presence felt in Grantchester...

WhatToWatch · Jan 16, 2025

For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

To think, until nearly the end of the last century, everyone had to write like this, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2025

Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre review: This darker take on the classic musical is all killer no filler

5/5 A glorious evening of song and dance that doesn’t shy away from the subtext of this quintessential London musical

Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2025

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist

The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2025

Bleak House by Charles Dickens audiobook review – Sam Mendes’s all-star adaptation

Ambika Mod, Thandiwe Newton and Mackenzie Crook are among the lineup in this cinematic telling of Dickens’s classic

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024