This classic children’s adventure story pits ten-year-old Siri against the villainous Captain Whitehead in a bid to save her little…
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The first of a trilogy, Middagsmörker (which also translates as ‘Darkness at Midday’) is a YA fantasy novel set in…
At the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sun 7 Oct 2018 Sebastian Faulks hosted a panel of European Literature Specialists. A reminder…
Thérèse Raquin was first published in magazine form in 1867, then as a full novel and has been adapted many…
You’ll know Nana, you’ll know Germinal, but do you know this gem in Zola’s twenty-strong Rougon-Macquart novel series – the…
Marjane Satrapi transforms the rather complicated and difficult recent history of Iran into a simple, touching, at time oppressive and…