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GK Chesterton

December 2023

  • 450106,Agatha Christie's Murder Is Easy<br>Agatha Christie's Murder Is Easy,First Looks,Luke Fitzwilliam (DAVID JONSSON),Mammoth Screen,Mark Mainz

    Perfect escapism: why cosy crime stories are a Christmas essential

    From Agatha Christie to Richard Osman, playful, quirky mysteries are particularly appealing at this time of year

March 2021

  • Dark rain clouds lay low over fields in Dunsden, Oxfordshire

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: dark curtains of rain fall on GK Chesterton

    The writer describes a walk in the ‘ghostly and colourless’ countryside around Oxford

April 2020

  • John Coates read Edwardian and socialist works in his maternal grandfather’s library and went on to become a writer himself

    Other lives
    John Coates obituary

    John Coates became a leading scholar of the Edwardian writer GK Chesterton

February 2019

  • VS Naipaul, author of A House for Mr Biswas.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what’s likely to impress an English literature admissions tutor?

    Philip Hensher suggests some great novelists, from GK Chesterton to VS Naipaul, who aren’t on the curriculum

October 2017

  • The former Labour prime minister Ramsay MacDonald’s National Government was dominated by Conservatives and he was vilified by the party he had once led.

    A look back
    From the Observer archive: this week in 1933

    The voices of Conservative disruption

July 2016

  • An EU balloon flies next to a statue of literature laureate Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London.

    Books blog
    Literary guides to Brexit: secessions in fiction

    Few authors have imagined states breaking from their geopolitical allegiances – but Chesterton, Churchill and George RR Martin are among those who have

May 2016

  • Broad minded? ... Kenneth More as Father Brown in ITV’s 1974 adaptation of GK Chesterton’s classic.

    Books blog
    When authors' prejudices ruin their books

    The unsavoury attitudes found in novels from writers such as GK Chesterton and Susan Coolidge have ruined some of the fiction I loved most as a child. But where do you draw the line when you return to tainted classics?

April 2016

  • George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc and GK Chesterton in 1927

    From the Guardian archive
    Do animals have souls? Shaw and Chesterton debate - archive

    15 April 1925: Writers George Bernard Shaw and GK Chesterton address the question of whether animals, as well as humans, are immortal beings

December 2015

  • Dermot Morgan as Father Ted Crilly

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best vicars

    Recently we brought you our 10 best vicars. Here are your suggestions as to who should have made the list

November 2015

  • Sea of Books

    The long tale of the British short story

    What makes the British short story special? In a trawl through thousands, Philip Hensher found a generous tradition that not only suits established writers but gives a platform to voices on the edge of society

September 2014

  • An oak tree silhouetted by a winter sunset in Hoxne, Suffolk.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: The black and bizarre outline of the tree

    Tim Radford on GK Chesterton character Walter Windrush's attachment to a landscape made mystical by the changing sky

May 2014

  • An image from 1962 of a man in a hat drinking by a pub fireplace

    Katharine Whitehorn column
    On children in pubs

    Historically pubs wouldn't allow children on the premises; now they have family-friendly menus and positively welcome toddlers, says Katharine Whitehorn

January 2013

  • Father Brown

    Six to watch
    Six to watch: TV priests and vicars

    Ben Dowell: With the current success of the BBC1 series Father Brown, priests and vicars may be starting to take centre stage on TV. We pay homage to some of the best small-screen clergy

  • Mark Williams as Father Brown

    Rereading
    Father Brown: the empathetic detective

    Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but for Michael Newton, GK Chesterton's atmospheric Father Brown stories are the best the genre has ever seen
  • Blandings … a high-class comedy.

    Mark Lawson on television
    Blandings and Father Brown: nostalgia TV at its best

    Mark Lawson: The forthcoming GK Chesterton and PG Wodehouse adaptations represent a welcome attempt to bring back a gentler form of drama that has fallen out of fashion

December 2012

  • Big Ben on New Year's Eve

    The Northerner
    Promises, promises. Have we weakened integrity in our search for personal freedom?

    Syima Aslam, whose recent Northerner post on wearing the hijab attracted considerable interest, reflects on principles and New Year resolutions

October 2012

  • Classics corner
    The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton – review

    GK Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece is an intriguing mix of thriller, farce and gothic romance, writes Simon Hammond

June 2012

  • GK Chesterton

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 5 June 1925: The mad world of Mr Petre

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 5 June 1925: Mr Belloc and Mr Chesterton are serious persons, and their fun is at bottom a criticism of life

February 2012

  • Jonathan Lethem

    The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem –review

    Jonathan Lethem's essays reveal surprising influences on his fiction. By Stuart Kelly

July 2011

  • Patrick Stewart and Alec Guinness in the 1979 TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

    Partners in crime fiction

    As the crime-writing world comes together for its annual festival, top authors in the genre choose their favourite fictional characters. But who is your most wanted?

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