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Michael Rosen’s update of Oliver Twist gets the musical treatment in this high-energy show about a schoolgirl ensnared by a street gang

Debates about what books students should be reading in high school reach a crescendo at the start of each school year.

South African stewards took a dim view when jockey Aldo Domeyer celebrated victory before the line on Charles Dickens in the Cape Guineas

The former Prime Minister has been spotted in the war-torn town of Bucha after receiving a personal invitation to visit the country from President Volodymyr Zelensky

Wilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary criticism, however, has traditionally seen him as only notable for his two mystery novels, The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868).

The founder of Public Enemy answers your questions on the future of hip-hop, police harassment and whether he has ever ridden on an ostrich

Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, returned to her home turf of Appalachia to tackle one of its most urgent issues — with a little help from David Copperfield.

Even Charles Dickens' 1843 seminal novella "A Christmas Carol" didn't yet feature one of these pieces of decor