Aaron Eames Despite Oscar Wilde’s prediction before his death in 1900 the British could not stand it if he outlasted the nineteenth century, he has lived on triumphantly well into the twenty-first. His works are continually reissued and adapted, his story is endlessly examined in biography, biopic and scholarship, and he is routinely memorialised and […]
250 years ago this December, one of the greatest novelists in the English language was born in a quiet rural village in the south of England. Publishing just four novels during her lifetime (with two more published posthumously) her writing has managed to endure over generations, spawning screen adaptations, literary tourism, academic studies, and even […]
Joanne K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series defined an era of young adult literature, both in Britain and the world. With half a billion books sold, eleven movies filmed, and a stage play produced, it is no doubt one of the most successful fantasy franchises to have ever been written. To many, it spoke about the […]