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Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne review – a terror suspect’s story

From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2023

The pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, Martin Amis's pyrotechnic prose captured life's destructive energies

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle.

The Conversation · May 21, 2023

Bleak Expectations review – agreeably funny Dickensian spoof as cosy as a woollen teapot

Caroline Leslie’s production sends up the less problematic Victorian foibles with a terrifically spirited barrage of juicy one-liners, blunt anachronisms and pleasing melodrama

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2023

Great Expectations viewers spot a HUGE mistake in the controversial adaptation

Great Expectations has divided fans but they agree on this!

WhatToWatch · Apr 3, 2023

Great Expectations review: BBC One’s new adaptation of the Dickens classic

There have been at least 18 prominent adaptations of Great Expectations since the invention of the moving image, said Nick Hilton in The Independent. “That’s Pip upon Pip, Magwitch upon Magwitch, Miss Havisham upon Miss Havisham.” Now, “for no discernible reason”, the BBC is treating its viewers to a new…

The Week · Mar 30, 2023

Where was Great Expectations filmed? Locations featured in the Olivia Colman BBC drama

Where was Great Expectations filmed? As Steven Knight brings the latest adaptation of the Dickens novel to life, we look at where filming took place.

GoodToKnow · Mar 27, 2023

The plot Dickens: Why TV needs to get over its Great Expectations obsession

Charles Dickens’ timeless 1861 novel has been adapted for TV and film numerous times – with the BBC’s new miniseries coming just 12 years after it last tackled the story. Commissioners should start showing a little more imagination, argues Louis Chilton

The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2023

The Guardian view on literary adaptations: an old wheeze that works

Editorial: Eyes might roll at yet another Dickens miniseries, but plays based on two more recent novels, Hamnet and A Little Life, have hit the jackpot

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2023

Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen

The new version of Great Expectations is the BBC’s seventh, while A Christmas Carol is the most adapted English classic ever. What is it about these stories that keeps us wanting more?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2023

Great Expectations on BBC One review: even Olivia Colman can’t save this irredeemably awful series

‘I can’t think of an adaptation I’ve hated more’

Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2023