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The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Return of Sherlock Holmes
David Stuart Davies looks at the novel that suggested that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not quite finished with his most famous creation, and the collection of stories that confirmed it.
Reading in lockdown
Consolation or confrontation? Sally Minogue looks at a few options.
Pippa Stacey looks at The Secret Garden
A Tale Of Thriving In Times Of Isolation – Pippa Stacey looks at ‘The Secret Garden’
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
‘Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme’: Sally Minogue looks at the appeal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets at a time of lockdown.
Plato’s ‘Republic’
Mia Forbes looks at The City in Plato’s ‘Republic’
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
David Stuart Davies looks at the classic early short stories first published in ‘The Strand Magazine’.
William Wordsworth 250
‘Trailing clouds of glory do we come’: Sally Minogue salutes William Wordsworth on his 250th birthday.
A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of the Four
In the first of a four-part series, David Stuart Davies begins with the novel that introduced the world’s first consulting detective.
Sally Minogue look at The Waves
‘Now is life very solid, or very shifting?’ Sally Minogue considers Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’.