Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

Sherlock Holmes can be old-school, punk, steampunk, or just a boor with great cheekbones. He’s survived silent films, ...

London is famously bad in a heatwave — the tubes are stifling, the parks are packed and the lidos are harder to get a ticket for than Glastonbury. So unless you’ve got a members’ club pass that’s your ...

Stephen Fry's guide to London: dining at Row on 5 and getting a trim at Geo F Trumper - The actor loves hotel stays at ...

At the close of the 19th century, Grace is a sharp-witted near-orphan living with her miserable but rich aunt in a decaying ...

Independent Bookshop Week was celebrated across the UK this June — we’ve selected four shops worth a literary pilgrimage.

Lego just announced its first book nook: Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street. I was guessing this was coming sooner than later, with Lego’s ever-increasing focus on the adult market and the growing ...

Editor, creative consultant and Climax Books founder Isabella Burley (whose New York Climax Books outpost we visited on its opening in 2024) has always flourished in London, the city where she grew up ...

The grimy streets of Victorian London were stalked by a shadowy menace: Spring-Heeled Jack! He had glowing eyes and blue flames came out his mouth. He had claws, wings. He had a tail. He had smart ...

This is a highly entertaining novel, but its graphic descriptions of nauseating smells, blood-soaked corpses, and the under-age prostitutes, are not for the faint-hearted ...

At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jinwoo Chong, Laila Lalami, Patricia Lockwood, and Brandon Stanton, among others.

The book allies us most closely with Quinn le Blanc (not her real name), who is “London’s most talented con woman” and who is assisted by shadowy Mr. Silk.