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Press secretary to Harold Wilson in the late 60s and 70s who went on to work for the Daily Mirror

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

Ambika Mod, Thandiwe Newton and Mackenzie Crook are among the lineup in this cinematic telling of Dickens’s classic

This uplifting production feels both improvised and polished, with John Elkington’s Dame Daisy camping it up to perfection as Jack’s mother

Whether you are or always have been a bookworm or stopped reading books at 16 years old, you should know all these big names in this literature trivia. From Dickens to Hemingway, this trivia has it all: your mission is to jog your memory and remember what you already know.…

It’s that season again, when the streamers bring us hot snowmen and heroes who still believe in Santa. Why are they competing to make the most ludicrous movie possible – and why do we keep watching them?

Rough sleepers have flooded Castle Baynard Street with tents and makeshift kitchens in an image that could ripped straight from a Dickens novel

Sometimes, it really is true — they don’t make them like they used to, even fogs. London was once the home of the pea-souper – but have you noticed one lately? That’s almost certainly a good thing, though. The worst ever hit in December 1952: “an all encompassing smoke-laden yellow…

There’s more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly