Getting into (someone else’s) character

Piecing together the inspirations and evolution of Mary Shelley’s famous monster

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

Thanks to the old Sherlock Holmes films that we used to watch on TV every week after the children’s programme Crackerjack had finished, I have known about my family’s “Hollywood relative” since my chi

LIKE millions of youngsters, Simon Tolkien adored immersing himself in the hugely successful books “The Hobbit” and “The Lord Of The Rings”. The otherworldly wonders were a delight for a nine-year-old

Best books… Richard Holmes The biographer chooses five ...

MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch