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Kate Saunders (pictured left, right and bottom inset), a UK author, passed away aged 62 last month. Here, Amanda Craig (top inset) pays her friend a touching written tribute.

What does it take to get the written word to work in front of an audience?

A pop-up book exhibit at Chicago’s Newberry Library. A 1,100-page pictorial showcase of door handles from around the world. A complete online collection of illustrations from Dickens’ novels. Making craft beer cans more recyclable. AI is now writing fortune cookie fortunes. Pending coronation, King Charles declines a Burger King crown. Where did colorful terms for collective nouns (like a gaggle of geese or a murder of crows) come from? The James Webb Space Telescope looks at the remains of ...

Michael John Goodman has just launched the Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery, featuring all the original artworks from the novelist’s archive.

Ever since Geoffrey Chaucer picked up his quill in the late 1300s, scratched his chin thoughtfully, and declared that he would write The Canterbury Tales

Conjure up before your mind a vision of ‘Dickensian’ London, and as likely as not you will see in your imagination a street filled with yellow fog, dimly illuminated by a gas-lit street lamp. The classic ‘pea-souper’ was caused by a natural winter fog in the Thames basin, turned yellow by the coal fires and

There is a range of opinions within Britain about the quality of democracy in the country today, but Johnson, a former prime minister, being grilled by the committee...

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?

Like Steven Knight's A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations often gets lost in the darkness, but is pulled out by its impressive cast.

Plans to turn a South London home into a shared house have been blasted by a neighbour who said the area is already so bad it has been…