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Joseph Fiennes to tackle Jackanory for coffee campaign

18.03.10
Heart-throb actor Joseph Fiennes is to get fans' pulses racing with literary readings in an adult version of Jackanory.... more

Bath: a destination for pleasure seekers

08.01.10
Bath's mixture of sybaritic indulgence and world-class architecture is as potent as ever... more

Neighbours in battle with school over 'Berlin Wall'

03.12.09
Residents are at war with a primary school after it fenced off a road to allow pupils to cross safely... more

What the Dickens! My ancestor would be ashamed of bankers

01.12.09
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Enjoy a thrill ride with A Christmas Carol

06.11.09
Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel... more

Dickens could not have made up this epic

27.10.09
The extraordinary delays which have beset the May case are turning it into one which makes the convoluted Jarndyce and Jarndyce legal epic in Charles Dickens's Bleak House seem like an example of summary justice.... more

Little Dorrit steals the show with seven Emmys

21.09.09
The BBC's Little Dorrit won seven Emmy Awards for Britain at American television's equivalent of the Oscars... more

More debt repaid than taken out for first time on record

01.09.09
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Why art is the social lubricant of our great city

10.07.09
At last night’s annual Serpentine Summer party, London shoulders its way to the front of the queue when it comes to sexing up the art world ... more

Hedges move out and the deadly weed moves in...

18.06.09
Charles Dickens would have loved these post-collapse days. Every day brings a fresh tale of upturned human fortune... more

Cherish the Victorians' style and vision - but don't forget their slums

06.03.09
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Heathrow battle begins today

15.01.09
The real battle for the future of Heathrow starts today, as the Transport Secretary announces his approval for a third runway - as this paper predicted last Friday... more

Oliver! needs more of a twist

15.01.09
What kept the first-nighters teetering on the verge of delighted hysteria throughout the almost £5 million extravaganza that is Oliver!?. ... more

I’m reviewing this as a smash hit situation

15.01.09
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Thames national park to be Dickensian idyll

27.11.08
Plans for a Thames Estuary national park returning 50 miles of Kent and Essex wetlands to the state of wilderness immortalised by Charles Dickens were unveiled today.... more

A critique of capitalism, Little Dorritt could not be more relevant

21.10.08
George Bernard Shaw declared Little Dorrit "a more seditious book than Das Kapital"; George Orwell said that "in Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached". This Sunday the BBC kicks off its 14-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens story adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies. ... more

Chaplin's spell in workhouse is revealed as records are put on the Net

03.09.08
The largest collection of London's historical records ever to go online will reveal details of Charlie Chaplin's spell in a Southwark workhouse and the baptism of Charles Dickens's son... more

Best grouse, hare and venison in London

03.09.08
Country comes to town as we find top places to eat grouse, hare and venison. Let your appetite for game run wild. ... more

Bond girl Gemma to play Tess Of The d'Urbevilles as TV turns back to costume dramas

20.08.08
It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. ... more

What's new on television this autumn? Austen, Hardy and Dickens

20.08.08
You could call them credit crunch classics - reliable dramas for worrying times... more

Lashings of votes for Enid in readers' poll

18.08.08
Enid Blyton has been named best-loved author of all time in a new poll... more

How romance blossomed among the silent readers

22.04.08
Lady Antonia Fraser complains that the British Library Reading Room has become overrun by undergraduates who are hogging all the desks. Her fellow historian Tristram Hunt bemoans the fact it is now a "groovy place" to meet for a frappuccino. Many feared that when the old Reading Room closed, the British Library would lose its charm. Far from it. It has become more fashionable than ever as a social venue... more

British Library like a branch of Starbooks say the literati

21.04.08
Prominent authors have complained that two the British Library's Reading Room has been overtaken by frappuccino drinking students giggling with their friends, playing on laptops and texting their mates.... more

Nine Dickens works crammed into a single evening

16.04.08
Dickens Unplugged romps through nine of the author’s works before wrapping up his complete oeuvre in song for the finale.... more

Snuggle up in our top 10 cosy corners

09.01.08
We find the top 10 venues where good food and a welcoming atmosphere will banish those winter blues.... more

A feast of comedy

10.12.07
A vigorous production of Nicholas Nickleby is a feast of comic amusement in part one which declines into a session of extended dullness in part two.... more

London's best pantomimes

03.12.07
From some classic Charles Dickens to Stephen Fry's racy Old Vic production, Fiona Mountford rounds up this year's bumper crop of festive family shows.... more

What the Dickens is going on here?

02.04.07
A visitor attraction devoted to the life and works of Charles Dickens will open at a £62million complex in what was once the Royal Naval Dockyard.... more

Dickens' last home may open to public

29.03.07
The last home of Charles Dickens - where he wrote three of his greatest works - could be opened to the public for the first time.... more

The ultimate pub guide

20.12.06
Kate Moss has decreed that pubs beat parties, clubs or bars. Luckily, London has a fantastic array of watering holes. Here we select the best places to huddle this Christmas.... more

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