The best Charles Dickens books, and why you should read them – selected by Dr Oliver Tearle When he died aged 58 in 1870, Charles Dickens left behind fifteen novels, five Christmas books, several volumes of travel writing, and dozens of journalistic pieces and short stories. But what are the […]
Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Compiling a list of the best Edgar Allan Poe short stories is always going to prove controversial, because he wrote many more classics than a ‘top 10’ list could ever dream of comprehensively capturing. So the following does involve some omissions – ‘The Pit and […]
10 classic books written by the master of science fiction, H. G. Wells H. G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote dozens of books over the course of his literary career, a career which spanned over half a century. But what are the best books by H. G. Wells? As well as writing […]
The best Virginia Woolf novels and short-story collections, and why you should read them Virginia Woolf wrote just nine novels, but she also left a number of volumes of non-fiction, an important volume of short stories, and an unusual work of biography, among countless essays and reviews. But what are […]
Our pick of the 10 best Philip Larkin poems and why you should read them – selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Trying to create a ‘top ten’ definitive list of Philip Larkin’s best poems is impossible, not least because each Larkin fan will come up with a slightly different list. […]