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John Wyndham

June 2022

  • The Midwich Cuckoos

    The week in TV: Pistol; The Midwich Cuckoos; Once Upon a Time in Londongrad; State of the Union

  • The Midwich Cuckoos

    TV review
    The Midwich Cuckoos review – women’s rights are under attack, and this is what they make?

November 2021

  • Damien Hirst’s sculpture For the love of God; part of his 2007 exhibition exploring themes of immortality and art

    You don’t have to be rich to live long and prosper

    Letters: Billionaires may spend fortunes on trying to cheat death, but there’s a much easier way, writes Paul Martinez. Plus letters from Luce Gilmore, George Baugh and Geoff Reid

May 2021

  • From left, Douglas Livingstone as Abe, Ray Mort as Ern and Brian Glover as Art, three miners on an out-of-season trip in The Fishing Party, by Peter Terson, in the Play for Today series, 1972.

    Douglas Livingstone obituary

    Actor and writer for television and radio, including Day of the Triffids and many memorable Plays for Today

June 2019

  • Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in the 1995 film of The Scarlet Letter.

    Top 10s
    From Dickens to Roth: top 10 novels about pariahs

    In characters such as Scrooge, Ira Ringold and Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, those society seeks to exclude and expel make for compelling reading

November 2016

  • a still from the 2009 TV adaptation of Small Island by Andrea Levy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about postwar Britain

    From George Orwell to John Wyndham, novelist Linda Grant finds compelling reading about the ‘strange interregnum’ that followed the defeat of Nazi Germany

September 2016

  • Janette Scott is accosted by a triffid in the 1962 film version of John Wyndham’s novel.

    Notes and queries
    Why are there no real-life triffids?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts

June 2016

  • The ideas are the star of this anthology … George Cole in The Last Lonely Man (1969).

    Your next box set
    Out of the Unknown review: 1960s BBC sci-fi from a Who’s Who of literary talent

    Futurism by Forster, colonising space with Ballard and gleaming white hospitals designed by Ridley Scott – thank goodness it wasn’t all wiped

January 2016

  • Sean Connery in the 1986 film of The Name of the Rose.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 clerics in fiction

    Asking, answering – and sometimes sneakily evading – readers’ spiritual questions, literature offers many memorable men of the cloth

December 2015

  • Niel Bushnell

    Children's books
    Niel Bushnell: 'you only live one life if you don't read'

    Author and animator Niel Bushnell talks to site members Charlotte and Eva from the Millennium Riot reading group about being a writer, the power of reading, and Benedict Cumberbatch as a bad guy

November 2015

  • Library at the Berkshires Home of Wharton<br>ca. 1978-1996, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA --- Two sofas and a desk rest in the library of The Mount, novelist Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, the Berkshires, Massachusetts. Wharton’s book The Decoration of Houses served as the principle inspiration for the structure. --- Image by © Lee Snider/Photo Images/Corbis

    Books blog
    Guardian readers' comfort library

    Jane Austen rubs shoulders with Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett sits next to Harry Potter in the great self-help archive assembled by our contributors

November 2014

  • A still from Village of the Damned

    The 20 best British science fiction films – in pictures

    To coincide with the BFI’s sci-fi season and its digital re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, we thought this would be a good time to look at some of the British greats of the genre

July 2012

  • The Day of the Triffids (1962).

    Top 10s
    Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes

    The Testament of Jessie Lamb author Jane Rogers lists her favourite great books where the safe, happy world as we know it comes to grief

March 2012

  • Caitlin Moran

    Out in paperback
    Out in paperback: March non-fiction

  • Sam Raimi

    Sam Raimi to bring The Day of the Triffids to the big screen

July 2011

  • Joseph Heller

    Famous for the wrong book

    John Self

    John Self: There's a big difference between an author's best-known work, and their best

April 2011

  • The Chrysalids by John Wyndham – review

    John Wyndham's 1955 sci-fi fable retains its power to thrill, writes Philip Womack

December 2010

  • Day of the Triffids

    Books blog
    John Wyndham: The unread bestseller

    Perennially popular, his science fiction is a great deal more nuanced than generally recognised

September 2010

  • Screaming green murder ... Nicole Maurey in the 1962 film The Day of the Triffids.

    Triffids 3D plan proves flesh-eating plants are hardy perennials

    Transformers producer plans to make definitive version of John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, in which 10ft plants menace mankind

July 2010

  • Johnny Marr

    Radio catchup
    Radio catchup: Johnny Marr, John Wyndham's Chocky and a troll

    Celine Bijleveld: The former Smiths guitarist recounts his musical youth while this week's dramatic offerings recall some scary childhood monsters
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