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Not long ago, David Baddiel, the actor and comedian, told his Twitter followers he was ‘rereading’ Middlemarch. In a...

In his history of crime fiction, Bloody Murder, Julian Symons called it ‘the detective story to end detective stories…...

by Kit Ward

Long ago, when I was young and impressionable, I read a profile of the novelist Graham Greene. His writing...

by Kit Ward

English Heritage caused a kerfuffle recently when it updated its website entry about Enid Blyton. EH’s interest in Blyton...

by Kit Ward

My first blog, These Islands, was five years old last month. Though it’s not exactly my first blog —...

by Kit Ward

Listening to an episode of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time radio programme recently, I learned that the first person...

by Kit Ward

In a burst of short story production last year, I wrote five tales in quick succession. At the back...

by Kit Ward

In January 897, the corpse of Pope Formosus was disinterred from the tomb it had occupied for nine months,...

by Kit Ward