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Readers reply: Who is the most evil villain in fiction?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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From White Teeth to Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s best books - ranked!

Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books

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Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’

The author and comedian on the immortal lines of Snoopy, discovering the heart of Homer’s Iliad and her culinary comfort read

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Les Misérables: a musical full of heart and hope that continues to defy its critics

When it opened in 1985, the mighty Les Mis got some rotten reviews. Forty years on, our writer sees it afresh and producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on the show’s spectacular success

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Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise

Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

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“Would You Survive An Old-School English Exam?”: Take This 29-Question Test Now And See

Sharpen your pencils and dust off those old notebooks - it’s time to head back to English class!From tricky grammar rules you haven’t thought about in years to the classic novels that filled your school reading lists, this quiz will test both sides of your brain.Can you recall Shakespeare, Dickens,…

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Herbert Pocket is far from a minor character in Great Expectations

Letters: Readers take issue with Herbert Pocket being deemed a ‘nobody’ in an article by Zoe Williams

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40 Times People Read A Book And Were In Awe

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Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’

The Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime writer

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‘Expressing your pain in artistic form is not easy’: exiled Russian theatre director builds bridges in London

Dmitry Krymov, who left Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors

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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame

From hanged men and inky cephalopods to shadowy gothic castles, these cosmic, horror-tinged works let the Les Misérables writer and liberal political campaigner speak directly to us

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‘What’s wrong with us?’ : Novelist Virginia Feito on our morbid obsession with true crime

Her debut, Mrs March, is being adapted by Elisabeth Moss, and her new novel has already been snapped up for the screen. Virginia Feito reveals the real-life inspiration for her shocking story of a psychopathic Victorian nanny

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Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour

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Joe Haines obituary

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

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Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

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

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Grantchester's Rishi Nair reveals the shocking thing he had to do on set on his first day

Rishi Nair on how new vicar Alphy Kotteram soon makes his presence felt in Grantchester...

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For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

To think, until nearly the end of the last century, everyone had to write like this, says Adrian Chiles

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Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre review: This darker take on the classic musical is all killer no filler

5/5 A glorious evening of song and dance that doesn’t shy away from the subtext of this quintessential London musical

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Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist

The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance

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Bleak House by Charles Dickens audiobook review – Sam Mendes’s all-star adaptation

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

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Jack and the Beanstalk review – dancing chickens meet the mother of all dames

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

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If You Get Less Than 15 Questions Right, You Can’t Claim To Have Good Literature Knowledge

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.…

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‘I couldn’t look away!’ The rapid, runaway rise of ridiculous Christmas romcoms

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?

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Rough sleepers living in shadows of London’s Square Mile face abuse ‘just for being homeless’

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

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OPINION - Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby review: the wonderful weirdness of fog

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…

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