Category: Fiction

With a culture rich in myths and storytelling, it is perhaps no surprise that Ireland has had an impact on…

‘My penchant for portraying my dreamlike inner life has rendered everything else inconsequential’: therefore it would seem the best route…

The enduring popularity of Jane Austen’s novels has seen each one picked up and reissued by numerous publishers over the…

From reopening cold cases in the light of new evidence, through the careful unravelling of clues, to tense manhunts when…

English novelist Jane Austen is renowned for her six novels, with their subtle satire of the British landed gentry, and…

Booker Prize winners often see their careers transformed and the accolade now receives international recognition. Here we take a brief…

Literature in the 20th century saw the creation of what are often considered to be some of the best books…

Known only by devotees of pulp fiction and Weird Tales magazine during his lifetime, HP Lovecraft is now recognized as…

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s father was a retired army surgeon who envisaged a military career for his son, but very soon after…

The enormous popularity of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club and the BBC’s adaptation of Robert Thorogood’s Death in Paradise series…