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The Trial of Elizabeth Poldark

Olga Hughes December 12, 2016

The following contains spoilers for Poldark Season 2. Elizabeth Chynoweth has never been in an advantageous position with readers. In...

Olga Hughes November 1, 2016

Christopher Tolkien is to receive the Bodley Medal, awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford for outstanding...

Olga Hughes October 12, 2016

Elizabeth Norton has brought us intriguing and compelling historical studies and biographies, looking at both the famous and infamous Queens...

Olga Hughes September 29, 2016

Over the last few decades the word “racist” has become almost synonymous with Enid Blyton’s name. Accusations of sexism and...

Olga Hughes September 23, 2016

Winnie-the-Pooh’s 90th anniversary will be celebrated with an official sequel The Best Bear in all the World, and a new...

Olga Hughes September 13, 2016

Supervitamin Chocolate “Supervitamin Chocolate contains huge amounts of vitamin A and vitamin B. It also contains vitamin C, vitamin D,...

C S Hughes September 11, 2016

You may have heard of urbex – urban exploration, a little like spelunking, but instead of discovering the mysteries of...

Olga Hughes September 6, 2016

The love letters that King Henry VIII penned to his amour Anne Boleyn over 1527 and 1528 survive as an...

Olga Hughes August 10, 2016

Quercus is bringing out a Famous Five Parody series, Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, this November. Grisly Tales from Tumblewater author...

Olga Hughes July 15, 2016

Who can forget two young girls who pretend they are prisoners in the Bastille to ward off the freezing cold...