Charles Dickens
From chicken and chips in foggy Venice, to the simple beauty of a tomato and an egg
Iconoclastic critics are – to turn their own words against them – short on emotional resonance, boring as sin and not all that compelling
The best opening lines have poise, excite immediate attention or simply impress
Whether you’re crammed on a bus on the way to work or lounging with a cocktail by the pool, audiobooks are a perfect way to transport you to another place
Steven Knight’s new BBC version of Great Expectations is like a Burt Bacharach song covered by a good metal band
Television: Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight lays the melodrama on with a trowel in this take on Dickens, starring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham
Donald Clarke: Problem is not with the writer but with the smallness of the critics’ minds
The adventure novelist sold 250 million books. A number of his works have Irish themes
‘Michaelmas goose’, stuffed with potatoes, signified prosperity for the year ahead
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This year my sleep issues got so bad that I snapped and did something about them
Sheila Shelton was adopted by a couple in the US from a Tipperary mother and baby home
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