10 of the best
Highlights from the world of literature
The Magic Box by Rob Young review – a spirited history of television
From spectral dreamscapes to The Year of the Sex Olympics, a lovingly researched history of British TV recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly
Top 10 (unconventional) ghosts in literature
These ghosts do not need to rattle chains and howl; they may not necessarily scare, but they manage to haunt, long after the pages have been turned
Andrew Sharples' top 10 war memoirs
From thrilling accounts of derring-do to bitter descriptions of the human fallout, here are 10 memoirs of conflict which inspired and moved me
John Mullan's 10 of the best: bridges
From Wordsworth to Iain Banks, via the inimitable William McGonagall
John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills
From Sir Walter Raleigh to Joanna Trollope, where there's a will there's a way
John Mullan's 10 of the best: conflagrations
From Dryden to Peter Carey, there's no smoke without fire
John Mullan's 10 of the best: museums
From the British Museum to the Metropolitan, the Frick to the V&A
John Mullan's 10 of the best: horse races
From Hyde Park to Epsom, it's a close-run thing
John Mullan's 10 of the best: TS Eliot quotes as titles
From Evelyn Waugh to Doris Lessing
John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles
From Victor Hugo to David Peace, via a certain book by George Orwell
John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays
From The Spanish Tragedy to The Habit of Art
John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen
From Daniel Defoe to Julia Donaldson
John Mullan's 10 of the best: imaginary meetings
What Aristotle said to Descartes, and other stories
John Mullan's 10 of the best: long walks
From Basho's haiku to Galgut's Lesotho
John Mullan's 10 of the best: trials
From Salem hysteria to racial prejudice in the Raj, here are some of the most memorable court scenes in literature
John Mullan's 10 of the best: babies
From chaste maids to smiling newborns: 10 of the best babies in literature
John Mullan's ten of the best: Aprils
From Chaucer, through Orwell and Larkin to Plath, John Mullan finds a range of views on the cruellest month
John Mullan's 10 of the best: emperors
From Shakespeare to modern-day children's writers, ancient despots have proved irresistible
John Mullan's ten of the best: wines
From Anacreon to John Lanchester, writers have never underestimated the power of wine
John Mullan's ten of the best: fraternal hatreds
From the rulers of Mycenae to Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter, John Mullan seeks out the brothers who wish they weren't
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