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.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney.
A museum is displaying a number of illustrations that featured in author Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous Discworld series.
