Dickens’s grand tour

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

IT had been a long, hard drive. Frances had left early, hoping to get away before the rush hour – only to discover that the rush hour started earlier still. She stopped for a break further south than

A hidden secret proved to Annie that bravery came in many forms

The Tower at Vita’s home, Sissinghurst Castle ...

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...