This weekend the clocks change, so we picked our favourite books featuring time! We’re fascinated by time. The word ‘time’ is one of the most popular nouns in the English language, ranking just below the nouns ‘one’ and ‘make’. But what ...
The time is passing so quickly – we’re exactly half way through our Audiobook Advent Calendar! For Day Twelve, we’re featuring the Little Women audiobook. This classic story by Louisa May Alcott begins on Christmas Eve 1861 with the March sisters, and ...
This article was written by Richard Bower, Durham University and Simon John James, Durham University. It was originally published on The Conversation Literature professor Simon John James and physicist Richard ...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that not all fictional couples are created equal. Some of them are sweeping romances that you can’t stop thinking about for weeks, while others add tension and drama to a book and are, quite frankly, just ...
Cosy crime, a sub-genre of crime whose stories are sometimes referred to as ‘cosies’, shows no sign of losing its popularity. Lovers of Agatha Christie know the cosy crime format well: an eccentric but likeable lead character is called upon to ...
As we come to the end of World Space Week, we’re going to look at the red planet and how our understanding of Mars has affected literature and sci fi. In the early days of astronomy, we knew little about ...