City recreates Jane Austen’s world on 250th anniversary
The book, which was only expected to fetch between £10,000-£12,000 at auction, attracted hundreds of bidders from all over the world.
September 17, 2025
The book, which was only expected to fetch between £10,000-£12,000 at auction, attracted hundreds of bidders from all over the world.
The book, which was only expected to fetch between £10,000-£12,000 at auction, attracted hundreds of bidders from all over the world.
Doyle incorporated Sherlock Holmes’ dependence on cocaine into several of his short stories and novels. However, in none of his writings does he offer an explanation as to when or why Holmes began to use cocaine.
The actor fell in love with stories about ‘silly asses in spats and monocles’ as a teenager. Fifty years after the author’s death, he celebrates his comic genius
The real Jay Gatsby wasn’t a millionaire but a Pulitzer Prize-winning Oxford graduate. For a century, mystery has shrouded the inspiration for the hero of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel – until now .
The Ambrosian Iliad, also known as Ilias Picta, is one of three surviving illuminated manuscripts from antiquity depicting classical literature, and the only one to recount Homer’s epic.
