Five novels with a real sense of place to explore from your living room
A good book can help us forget about the world around us and transport us to another time and place. It can take us from our sofa to the beaches...
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Inside The Beatles’ Messy Breakup, 50 Years On
Fifty years ago, when Paul McCartney announced he had left the Beatles, the news dashed the hopes of millions of fans, while fueling false reunion rumours that persisted well into...
From Christie to Chandler – five detective novels to investigate
Everyone loves a good mystery, especially when it’s in the hands of a enigmatic investigator. Literary detectives come in many forms from charming, eccentric amateurs like Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple...
Five novels from the Victorian era to give comfort in troubled times
Pam Lock The evolution of the novel and short story in the 19th century brought us one of the greatest human sources of comfort, besides food and a nice hot...
Book Clubs and the Blitz: How WWII Britons Kept Calm and Got Reading
Nicola Wilson These are unprecedented times – but, even so, comparisons are being made to the second world war in terms of the magnitude of the crisis that coronavirus represents....
Take A Virtual Tour of the Vatican Museums
A trip to Rome is like a visit to an enormous open-air museum. There’s so much to see from the Coliseum, to the Trevi Fountain to the Spanish Steps, there’s...
Remember What Bob Told Us?
That’s right, “It’s good to talk.” It’s been a quarter of a century since Bob Hoskins uttered those immortal words in a series of television commercials for British Telecom but...