By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For much of Harper Lee’s life, “ To Kill a Mockingbird ” stood alone as her only major work; her first and, apparently, last novel, narrated by a voice so clear and coheren...
10.20.2025 Cnn.com and 10 sitesMolly Lee is talking to me about the tales her aunt Nelle, known to the world as Harper Lee, would weave for her when she was a little girl. 'She was just a great storyteller, ' says the 77-year-old f...
10.20.2025 yahoo.com , independent.co.uk and 2 sites
As fall begins to curtain our days with long nights, our screens fill up with thrillers and bone-chilling entertainment. This list brings together five novels, across eras and authors, to give you the...
10.22.2025 Dawn.comFiction Daphne du Maurier is, for my money, the most underrated writer of all time. Which is not to say, exactly, that she was the greatest, only that, by a straightforward metric of “quality versus ...
10.24.2025 Independent.ie
“Venice […] is still left for our beholding in the final period of her decline: a ghost upon the sands of the sea, ” wrote John Ruskin in the mid-nineteenth century. Ever since, writers of Gothic, ghostly and macabre tales have been drawn towards La Serenissima. Ian McEwan, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier and Thomas Mann – none of them could resist the symbolism of the sinking city and its centuries of decline. Nor could Henry James, who used Venice as a setting for two stories – The Wings...
10.23.2025 Thetablet.co.uk and 1 sites
There’s something special about a fall drive: feeling the crisp air through the windows, watching the leaves bristle in shades of red and gold, and listening to the peaceful sound of wheels on the roa...
10.21.2025 Bookstr.com
My two kids are each others’ polar opposites in everything, and it’s particularly obvious at Halloween. My son is ready for anything, an extrovert with a sunny disposition. He wants to be a train cond...
10.21.2025 Blizzardwatch.comDuring October, I always dive into spooky books, movies and TV shows in the lead up to Halloween. My love for horror had me wondering where this all might have begun, and I believe it can be chalked u...
10.24.2025 Readings.com.au