Alex Johnson
The desk on which Dame Hilary Mantel wrote her multi-award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy
There are many ways of reinterpreting our cultural heritage, but Shakespeare scholar and historian Ella Hawkins has come up with one of the most wholesome.
Although the book fairs in London tend to receive the most attention, there are many more around the UK run under the auspices of the Provincial Booksel
An exhibition at the British Library opening later this month showcases the role gold has played in the production of some of the world’s finest manuscripts, from book covers and illuminations to w
The intersection between literature and the other creative arts is the focus of two new exhibitions in London and Hampshire.
Rarely seen illustrations for Charles Dickens’ first novel are at the heart of a new exhibition cel
Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, England, the home of designer and writer
At a time when most fictional detectives seem to have some kind of unusual quirk, terrible relationship history, or appalling skeleton in the closet, it’s nice to come across the virtuous and jolly
The London kitchen that inspired one of the twentieth century’s most famous picture books for children is now open to visito
A new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire shines an intriguing light not on Charlotte’s work but on her clothes.
