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A consideration of spooky tales for the festive season by David Stuart Davies

Part Two: Nineteen Eighty-Four. David Stuart Davies looks at the many adaptations of Orwell’s dystopian classic.

Steve Carver looks at ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Oscar Wilde’s only novel.

Part One: Animal Farm. David Stuart Davies looks at the various attempts to dramatise George Orwell’s allegorical novella of Stalinist Russia.

David Ellis celebrates the centenary of the publication of ‘Women in Love’, arguably D.H. Lawrence’s best novel.

Stephen Carver looks at the life of probably the most innovative and influential figure in 19th century American literature.

The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Bly Manor: Stephen Carver takes up the story

Stephen Carver looks at Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s classic example of Victorian ‘Sensation Fiction’, which helped create the template for modern crime fiction.

David Stuart Davies looks at R.D. Blackmore’s romantic West Country classic.