The Australian-American author gallops through the life of a famed racehorse in the antebellum south but falters when she reaches modern America

Little Women, Les Misérables and now Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde have all spawned followups by different authors. But are they ever any good?

Louisa May Alcott's father has been dismissed as a parasite who lived off his daughter's earnings. But Bronson Alcott’s reputation was unfairly sullied by a disastrous attempt to set up a commune with 'Arcadian fanatics'