Charles Dickens

177-year-old card went on sale the same year Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was published

Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format

The French Connection won best picture but the non-fiction novel is largely forgotten

He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was good

Zafon wrote The Shadow of the Wind, the most read Spanish novel after Don Quixote

This pretty Georgian home sits in the centre of a charming Co Waterford heritage town

The only true victims of the meme are gentle souls whose name is being taken in vain

Contents sale of New Park House features many equine-themed works

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

Victorian fashions have shaped our expectations of Christmas to a degree that we forget how many of our Christmas traditions are recent innovations

Yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the money

Stores were opening till midnight back in 1867 and, even now, too often we just buy unwanted junk

Amid the ruins of a lost medieval town lie what are thought to be the remains of St Nicholas

Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way

British high court says relatives of Hyderabad ruler entitled to £35m from Natwest

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Sorcha's was served on a VHS copy of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Brother tells congregation motor neurone disease campaigner ‘left on his own terms’

Darwin took it handy, so did Dickens – why 80-hour weeks are unproductive

Different cases of Allen and Polanski show how past is now up for vigorous reassessment

Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

Weblog: You get three free books a month, but you don’t get to pick them or keep them

We’ll never be free of the supermarket but we should bridge the gap between food and our community

Review: Nadine Labaki’s ruthlessly moving new film deserves its Oscar nomination

Nice Gollum argues for a People’s Vote. Cruel Gollum rants about “blue passportses”

Meat-free menus get a fine dining makeover with big-name chefs and venues

For a book tour with a difference, visit some of the literary world’s most interesting homes

Early medical devices promised curative therapies to ‘reanimate torpid limbs’

Contingency plan was to scare Brussels but really only echoes with ‘Don’t panic!’

The myth of great heroism behind the French revolution was fake news

Twelve ways to spend 90 minutes this evening if you have no interest in watching the World Cup

Mega-grossing Avengers movie shows the nerds – or maybe the superfans – have won

Chris Johns: Trump may rail, but intellectual property theft litters history

Lost Leads, 1970: Gardaí struggled to find the cause of a fire that ‘almost completely destroyed’ a woman’s remains

Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson wow in Wonder and James Franco hits gold in The Disaster Artist

Festival will open with ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ and is predicted to generate over €2.5 million for local economy