It's one of the most controversial books published this century. Author Nikki Gemmell reveals the story behind her bestseller ...

Stroud is a town with layers—some well-trodden, others hidden in the folds of history, waiting to be rediscovered. It’s a ...

In my bathroom hangs a photograph of William Gladstone in 1898, dead on a bier in his library at home in Hawarden, lying in ...

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The Victorian author did much to further a distinguished profile for Scotland Yard detectives. “Crime and the plight of the working class are major themes in Dickens’s novels, so he develops a ...

It used to be that books featured a whole bunch of the former ... it feels like he’s acknowledging that women were central to the way Victorian England worked (see, also: Queen Vicky herself ...

For self-taught illustrator Shelley Aldrich, tunnel books inspire a series of vibrant books and folded visual narratives.

The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey” brings together 50 illustrations that Gorey sent to his friend, Tom Fitzharris, at ...

Bridie is match seller in Victorian London. It’s hard work but if it means making sure her mother and younger brother eat, ...

AngieHoffmeister reveals how she created the eerie art for The Folio Society's The Lottery and Other Dark Tales.

Jacqueline Wilson has shared her favourite things about Sussex, how her favourite books inspired her work and her reaction to receiving a new honour.