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Most Tolkien fanatics know about Glamdring, the ancient sword wielded by Gandalf during the War of the Ring and seen by most of us in...

Agatha Christie has sold more books than any other author on the planet, with estimations ranging from a hundred million to two billion...

For anyone who has always wanted to be a writer, the obstacles can sometimes seem impossible to overcome. It’s not a question of ‘How...

In the early 2000s, while teaching English Literature to a group of 14 year olds, I performed an experiment in two parts. Firstly, using...

Netherne to Saint Pancras It was Christmas in the latter part of the twentieth century. Snow lay across most of England. Having packed a...

In class at school, in 1971, I sat next to a girl I’d never spoken to and had no real intention of getting to know. During a reading...

​ The opening line of the novel is a telling one: When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. ...

In 1975, my English teacher, one Mr. Sweeting, came up with the idea of a reading list from which we (his unforgiving class of...

For me, the Golden Age of Doctor Who stretches from the beginnings of the show in 1963 right through to the moment that Sarah Jane Smith...