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Unmistakably Blytonian: Modernising The Magic Faraway Tree

Olga Hughes July 29, 2026

It’s almost a rhetorical question: can Enid Blyton be modernised? Of course she can. And anyone still unconvinced need only...

Olga Hughes August 30, 2022

Back in 2017, all we knew about an upcoming film on the search for Richard III’s lost grave was a...

Olga Hughes July 29, 2022

The first time I saw Jane Austen described as a ‘prose Shakespeare’ it struck me as absolute perfection. It was...

Olga Hughes June 12, 2021

There are certain aspects of Anne Boleyn’s life, and death, that will always influence the way her story is told....

Olga Hughes December 31, 2020

Episode spoilers and full book spoilers for The Subtle Knife. Æsahættr The crew behind His Dark Materials have always been...

Olga Hughes December 20, 2020

Episode Spoilers Malice All of Mrs. Coulter’s story over season two, from her torturing the witch Katja, the murder of...

Olga Hughes December 12, 2020

Episode Spoilers The Scholar Francesca Gardiner’s solo effort on The Scholar gave us a deeply fascinating insight into mother and...

Olga Hughes December 4, 2020

Episode 4 Spoilers Tower of the Angels I thought that the hope of seeing a great adaptation of His Dark...

Olga Hughes November 24, 2020

Episode 3 Spoilers Theft The first few minutes of Theft is crammed with disparate story threads. The episode opens with...

Olga Hughes November 19, 2020

Episode 2 Spoilers The Cave When Will and Lyra’s stories were separate in Season One, the children seemed a little...