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    • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Ian McKellen sends festive feathers flying in Mother Goose

      Also on the London stage: ‘Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol’ takes Dickens to east Tennessee for a heart-melting musical

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Dickens and Prince — Nick Hornby’s love letter to prolific genius

      Apart from a prodigious output, what artistic traits did the 19th-century novelist share with the late pop musician?

    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
      The home in 50 objects from around the world #4: Dickens’s armchair

      Upholstered in plum-coloured leather, this was the seat of much of the author’s inspiration

    • Friday, 3 September, 2021
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

      Robert Douglas-Fairhurst cleverly shadows the great author’s London life in 1851 as he formulates his most ambitious work, ‘Bleak House’

    • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Thomas Keneally’s The Dickens Boy — an engrossing and transporting read

      A retelling of the plight of Charles Dickens’s sons in Australia

    • Friday, 3 July, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Mystery of Charles Dickens, by AN Wilson

      A compelling portrait of the great Victorian novelist and the contradictions of his character

    • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
      ReviewFilm
      The Personal History of David Copperfield — Armando Iannucci adapts Dickens with dizzying good cheer

      Dev Patel leads a vast ensemble cast that is the great strength of this adaptation

    • Friday, 22 December, 2017
      Janan Ganesh
      Why Scrooge’s strategy makes him a very modern miser

      By being nicer . . . the reformed Scrooge does as the old Scrooge: recognises a bargain when he sees one

    • Thursday, 7 December, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A Christmas Carol — with bleakness, magic, Mrs Snapchat and Master Tinder

      An adaptation faithful to the spirit of Dickens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

    • Thursday, 30 November, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Rhys Ifans stars in a thoughtful, touching Christmas Carol at the Old Vic

      Subtly chosen music and glowing lanterns accompany Scrooge on his journey

    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Man Who Invented Christmas — an overdressed Yuletide spread

      The macabre moments work best in this story of Charles Dickens and his seasonal classic

    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2017
      David Allen Green
      The meaning of the employment tribunal fees ruling
    • Friday, 14 July, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A Tale of Two Cities, Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London — sketchy and crude

      A stage adaptation of Dickens’ tale is hampered by an unclear narrative and underdeveloped characters

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2017
      Nilanjana Roy
      How modern life is changing the art of conversation

      Dialogue reveals all that is said, unsaid and unsayable

    • Monday, 3 October, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Fagin’s Twist, Avant Garde Dance Company, The Place, London — review

      An alternative take on Dickens’s novel is distinguished by terrific dancing

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2016
      UK retail results
      Fast Asia Open: Asia to muddle around after Wall St eases
    • Friday, 6 May, 2016
      John Lee
      A mutual friend put me on trail of a new investment

      Don’t be put off good stock if its price rises by a few coppers

    • Wednesday, 23 December, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A Christmas Carol, Noël Coward Theatre, London — review

      Jim Broadbent is the butt of the jokes alongside an irrepressible Samantha Spiro in this joyous production

    • Thursday, 29 October, 2015
      UK banks
      On a three centuries paper trail at Coutts

      The private bank manages its corporate past through a trove of records from wealthy clients

    • Wednesday, 14 October, 2015
      World
      Why London defies attempts to write the definitive novel

      Many writers have tried but is it possible to capture this vast, vibrant city in a novel?

    • Wednesday, 19 August, 2015
      Management
      Deskspace: scribes, Dickens and the latest chapter in the story of desks

      Forget hot-desking — ‘not-desking’ is the latest way to establish your status in the workplace

    • Friday, 16 January, 2015
      Property sector
      A rentier nation’s fading dreams of home

      The UK housing crisis is part of wider asset transfer from the state to the rich, writes Will Self

    • Friday, 12 December, 2014
      Women of the Year
      My London: Lincoln’s Inn Fields, by Claire Tomalin

      The writer on why the historic area makes her feel like a time traveller

    • Friday, 20 June, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Invisible Woman – DVD review

      Ralph Fiennes directs a laudable Charles Dickens biopic about the author’s affair with an 18-year-old actress

    • Thursday, 27 March, 2014
      Philip Stephens
      How the best of times is making way for the worst

      Globalisation’s great prosperity sits beside the risks that accompany the passing of an old order

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