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Wilkie Collins

January 2024

  • Wilkie Collins.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Wilkie Collins

    Born on 8 January 200 years ago, the Victorian writer is best known for his mystery novels The Woman in White and The Moonstone. But with more than 30 books to choose from, here are some good places to begin

July 2023

  • Elly Griffiths - writer

    The books of my life
    Elly Griffiths: ‘If I love a book I read it multiple times’

    The crime writer on embracing politics in her teens, discovering the thrill of George Eliot, and learning from Wilkie Collins

September 2018

  • True and false … a still from Steven Spielberg’s film of Ready Player One (2018).

    Top 10s
    Atwood? Shakespeare? Harry Potter? Top 10 false identities in fiction

    Characters in disguise are almost as frequent in books as in real life. From the boy wizard to the bard, here are some of the best

August 2018

  • Greg Wise as Franklin Blake and Keeley Hawes as Rachel Verinder in ITV’s 1996 adaptation of The Moonstone

    Reading group
    'The MacGuffinest MacGuffin of them all': what do you think of The Moonstone's ending?

    We’re in spoiler territory here – but Wilkie Collins’ bizarre grand finale is both ludicrous and wonderful
  • detail from portrait of Wilkie Collins by Rudolph Lehmann.

    Reading group
    How Wilkie Collins found sensation in ordinary life

    The Moonstone certainly has elements of breathless storytelling, but some of its thrills derive from the precision of its down-to-earth details
  • Greg Wise as Franklin Blake in the 1996 TV version of The Moonstone.

    Reading group
    Serial chiller: Wilkie Collins, master of the cliffhanger

    When it was first published 150 years ago, The Moonstone came out in weekly instalments. Read as a novel today, Collins’ page-turner has lost none of its power

July 2018

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    Reading group
    Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone is our reading group choice for August

    Dorothy L Sayers called it ‘probably the very finest detective story ever written’ – so get cracking early on this substantial Victorian sensation

May 2018

  • Jessie Buckley (right) as Marian Halcombe.

    Books blog
    Screened out: why TV and film glam up plain women in books

    Kaite Welsh
    Marian in The Woman in White is written with a moustache – which vanished in the new TV version, just like the imperfections of many literary characters on camera

April 2018

  • The perfect crime

    Top writers choose their perfect crime

    Crime fiction is now the UK’s bestselling genre. So which crime novels should everyone read? We asked the writers who know ...
  • The Woman in White … the scenery is wonderful, in an eerie way.

    TV review
    The Woman in White review – the Victorian classic updated for the #MeToo era

    This latest Wilkie Collins adaptation strikes a very modern note while hanging on to the original’s gothic creepiness
  • Olivia Vinall stars at the heart of the mystery in the BBC’s new Wilkie Collins adaptation.

    TV’s new Victorian melodrama carries a #MeToo message

    The BBC’s Sunday serial, The Woman in White, could not be more timely, say its creators

February 2018

  • Jane Austen

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: recommended literary page-turners

    This week, our expert suggests a selection of books to rekindle the joy of reading in even the most battle-hardened litterateur

January 2018

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    Reading group
    Reading group: which book about redemption should we read in January?

    From Milton to Marilynne Robinson, stories of spiritual and worldly salvation are a rich seam in literature. Please help choose one for us to make a fresh start with in 2018

December 2017

  • The Woman in White at Charing Cross Theatre Carolyn Maitland (Marian Halcombe) Ashley Stillburn (Walter Hartright) Anna O’Byrne (Laura Fairlie) Photo Darren Bell

    The Woman in White review – can this cast solve Lloyd Webber's musical mystery?

    A masterly set of actors leave their mark on a gothic revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 2004 misfire which flattens the spikier elements of the Victorian novel

October 2016

  • David McConochie

    How we got to The Girl on the Train – the rise of the psychological thriller

    Ahead of a new TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, John Mullan explains how The Girl on the Train’s themes of adultery, murder and secret identity are rooted in the Victorian era

December 2015

  • two women reading

    Books blog
    Which books cheer you up?

    Today is Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year – so we’re on the look-out for books to beat the winter blues. Here are some that warmed us over at the Books desk. But what are yours?

September 2015

  • New York's Croton reservoir, settting for Waterworks

    Reading group
    The Waterworks by EL Doctorow - a macabre masterpiece

    It received mediocre reviews and is now out of print, but this 19th century yarn rivals Poe and Wilkie Collins in its flirtation with the supernatural and its creepy, troubled narrator

August 2015

  • RACHEL McADAMS as Irene Adler in the Warner Bros. Pictures film version of Sherlock Holmes.

    Children's books
    Victorian heroines: surprisingly strong-willed, empowered and rebellious

    Detective fiction, steampunk adventures and historical fantasies – so many Victorian stories have amazing heroines. They’re wonderfully rebellious, strong-willed, defiant and adventurous. They’re exciting and empowering, and Frances Hardinge says she couldn’t have written her gothic murder mystery The Lie Tree without them

July 2015

  • Bound copies of All the Year Round

    Dickens's marginalia reveal famous contributors to his journal

    Bound volumes of All the Year Round, the author’s popular magazine, show that Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell were among the names behind anonymous pieces

December 2014

  • Fingersmith

    Top 10s
    The top 10 neo-Victorian novels

    Charles Palliser chooses his favourite modern fiction that revisits the Victorian era for a 21st-century audience, from Fingersmith to Cold Mountain
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