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The Last Chairlift by John Irving review – an outlandish family epic

Unconventional characters, uncertain paternity issues: Irving’s 15th novel retreads familiar ground, but is overlong and poorly edited

The Guardian - UK

Cutting school trips would have been disastrous for kids like me

What I remember most vividly from school are not the lessons in the classroom — reading Dickens, studying trigonometry, internalising French grammar. What I remember from Thomas Tallis in Kidbrooke are the school trips, after school clubs, preschool activities in the cafeteria where I chatted amiably with all the other…

Evening Standard

Book of the Week: Kate, Kate

In praise of Kate De Goldi's latest novel.

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Fran Lebowitz at Theatre Royal Drury Lane review: Excoriating opinions and witty retorts

While not a stand-up, the wordsmith has the natural cadences of a classic acerbic New York comic

Evening Standard

Bleak Expectations review – Radio 4’s Dickens parody bursts on to the stage

This fast-paced comedy mashup of the great Victorian novelist sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness

The Guardian - UK

Dodger: the Oliver Twist prequel that’s scary, starry and totally irresistible TV

This Dickens spin-off claps along like The Goonies and is so ace it’s been promoted from CBBC to BBC One. No wonder Christopher Eccleston and Julian Barratt were lining up to star

The Guardian - UK

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a deeply satisfying debut

This spirited Trinidadian love story about a gravedigger and a medium has echoes of Dickens

The Guardian - UK

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Lost Dog: A Tale of Two Cities review – the best of times

Ben Duke directs a triumphant theatre-dance interpretation of the Dickens classic that offsets complexity with out-loud laughs

The Guardian - UK

Oliver Twist given new spin in BBC prequel to Charles Dickens novel

Exclusive: Spin-off based on Artful Dodger and crime-lord Fagin brings food poverty to fore

The Guardian - UK

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