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Charles Dickens

May 2024

  • Illustration of a character with a raven

    Pets that inspired Charles Dickens lionised in London exhibition

  • Michael Sheen records the audiobook for Philip Pullman's La Belle Sauvage

    The Guardian view on audiobooks: a growing market that asks existential questions

April 2024

  • Bella Maclean as Bella Wilfer in London Tide

    London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames

    With its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimagining of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir

March 2024

  • Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens at the Comedy theatre, London, in 2000.

    Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

    London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

February 2024

  • Jim Davis

    Other lives
    Jim Davis obituary

  • ‘I do not think I would recall him to this dark world if I could’… Georgina Hogarth.

    Sister-in-law’s letters provide insights into Charles Dickens’ life and legacy

January 2024

  • Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in True Detective: Night Country.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: True Detective: Night Country; Big Boys; The Artful Dodger; Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? – review

  • Grays & Feather's fallen leaf.

    The good mixer
    Cocktail of the week: Grays & Feather’s fallen leaf – recipe

December 2023

  • Ncuti Gatwa.

    Audiobook of the week
    David Copperfield by Charles Dickens audiobook review – starry spin on a classic

  • Si King (left) and Dave Myers

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a very emotional yuletime special with the Hairy Bikers

  • Santa’s little helper

    My week of Christmas jobs: ‘There is bad news. Dancer has diarrhoea’

  • Tommy Steele on stage at the London Palladium in the title role of the 2005 musical Scrooge.

    Scrooge’s U-turn in A Christmas Carol was not just a load of humbug

  • The Guardian view on A Christmas Carol: a tale of redemption for an irredeemable age

  • Dutch town shakes off political strife with ‘world’s largest Dickens festival’

  • From exhilarating Oliver! to a mardy Beast in the east – three of the best Christmas family shows

  • Wild beasts and Charles II: amateur army digs for history in British parks and gardens

November 2023

  • Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Artful Dodger

    The Artful Dodger review – this zippy Dickensian spin-off is a very good time

  • Morfydd Clark and Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfield.

    The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly review – great speculations

  • An excavated room with blue plaster just visible on the walls and a fireplace

    Archaeologists uncover colourful walls and fireplaces of London workhouse

  • The Great White Horse Hotel in Ipswich, Suffolk

    ‘Success stories’: Historic England adds several sites to risk register but removes 203

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