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We have a nostalgic wallow in the events of fifty years ago

David Stuart Davies tells how reading ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ made him a lifetime devotee of the master detective.

American born Parker Lancaster delves into the depths of what the notion of freedom and Independence Day truly stands for and how he will be taking a page out of Spinoza’s book this year…(excuse the pun).

Sally Minogue reviews the National Theatre’s touring production of ‘Jane Eyre’

With a musical version opening in London, David Stuart Davies takes a look at this perennially popular children’s classic. Poop-Poop!

David Ellis considers how ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Sons and Lovers’ both fade after half time.

It’s a quarter of a century since the launch of the Wordsworth £1 Classic

On the day of Thomas Hardy’s birth, David Stuart Davies looks at the book that some consider to be his finest work.

Sally Minogue offers some lugubrious birthday reflections.