THE STRANGE SENSE OF AN ENDING
Copy: The National 12/01/12 >> Really enjoyed Great Expectations on the BBC over the Christmas break, not least because I was intrigued to see how they decided to end it. Would they go with Dickens’ […]
CHARLES DICKENS
CLAIRE TOMALIN @ MCR Literature Festival
Ever since I interviewed Claire Tomalin for her Pepys book which won the Whitbread Prize, I’ve come to think of her as our pre-eminent literary biographer. I simply can’t think of another author who gets […]
REVIEW: HARD TIMES @ MURRAYS’ MILLS
Claire Tomalin’s excellent Charles Dickens biography reminded me that Library Theatre Company had a pretty good stab at Hard Times in Murrays’ Mills earlier this year. I reviewed it for The Stage – it was […]