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Charles Dickens’ unseen letters to be published for the first time

The letters include details about his adventures abroad and his frustrations with the Sunday postal service.

The Independent UK

Top 35 literary locations in the UK as voted by readers

A study of 2,000 literary lovers has revealed the top 35 places to see in the UK, which have been made famous by the books they rate the most

The Independent UK

Top 35 must-see locations for book lovers - with Brontë sisters' home topping list

The literary list features sites made famous by both authors and by their works - from Shakespeare's birthplace, to Sherwood Forest from Robin Hood

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Don’t be a basic beach! The most secret seaside spots a short day-trip from London

What’s that? Another heatwave? As Londoners flock to Brighton and Margate, Katie Strick and Juliana Piskorz pick the more secluded seaside spots (where you won’t bump into half the capital)

Evening Standard

Charles Dickens sought house where he would meet a real ghost

Exhibition in London will explore the author’s lifelong fascination with the paranormal

The Guardian - UK

Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

Cheerfulness can boost your energy levels, even in tough times – as philosophers and writers have long recognised, writes Donna Ferguson

The Guardian - UK

Great expectations of a Wagatha sequel

Brief letters: Vardy v Rooney | Grammar schools | Backing the birch | Truss v Neil | More flushing advice

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Newcastle's historic Alderman Fenwick’s House opens a cafe selling coffee and luxury ice cream

The 17th Century Alderman Fenwick’s House teams up with Caffe Ginevra to sell home-made ice cream, Sicilian coffee and cannoli

Chronicle Live

Jessie Buckley to star in Netflix animation Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

The Oscar-nominated actress will once again lend her voice to the new project

Irish Mirror

Noir and nostalgia inform Chris Womersley's tale of forgery, grief, and the seamy side of urban life

Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several pages listing past awards received by the author and supplying a range of accolades cut and pasted from reviews of his earlier works.

The Conversation

Scotland's oldest wine seller visited by Charles Dickens opens new Edinburgh shop

Founded in the capital over 200 years ago, Cockburns of Leith have been known to have some very famous customers over the years, with the likes of Sir Walter Scott and even Charles Dickens buying a bottle.

Edinburgh Live

Scotland’s oldest wine merchant opens new premises in Edinburgh

Cockburns of Leith was established in 1796 and counted Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens among its customers

Insider UK

Hundreds dress in Dickensian period costume to mark Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

This year’s Dickens Festival in Rochester was timed to coincide with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The Independent UK

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride

In our Guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

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The Guardian - UK

Schools don’t need to bin Shakespeare – but it’s time for us to teach him differently

Decolonising the curriculum doesn’t mean losing traditional texts, but studying the power imbalances my pupils already experience, says secondary school teacher Nadeine Asbali

Evening Standard

Gentleman Jack: Suranne Jones hints a third series might be in the works

We’re keeping our fingers crossed

The Guardian - UK

From Dover’s cliffs to degraded porn: the astonishing alchemy of Cornelia Parker – review

This fabulous survey of her 40-year career has everything from soiled hankies to exploding sheds, as well as a vampire-like Margaret Thatcher – confirming Parker’s genius for finding poetry in the world around us

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Why does truth not seem to matter in India anymore?

Dickens could not have imagined how accurately he would be describing the world more than a hundred and fifty years later. For today we do live in a world where it is at once the best of times and the worst of times, where vaccines work and don’t work, millions…

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The Palace Papers by Tina Brown review – the good, the bad and the indefensible

It’s hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades’ worth of royal scandals

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Penguin bars causing a p-p-p-problem for PM

BORIS JOHNSON has a lot on his plate at the moment, but it seems another photo is coming back to bite him. Last summer, the Prime Minister exchanged Penguin bars for Tim Tams with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison as they posed for a photo-op after signing a post-Brexit trade…

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction

Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys

Liverpool Echo

£30m Shakespeare North Playhouse supported by Johnny Vegas to open in Prescot

Johnny Vegas said: 'Let's make it up north, let's do it up north, let’s have some faith in us up north'

Wales Online

Charles Dickens Museum 'blocked' on TikTok due to 'rude' surname

The museum criticised the move, adding that the novelist's surname was 'a name, not slang'

Evening Standard

Charles Dickens Museum now on TikTok after four-letter word mix-up

Fans of the Charles Dickens Museum can now follow it on TikTok after the social media giant lifted its inadvertent ban on its name.

The Guardian - UK

Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery

The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes

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