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Top 10s Top 10 escapes in books

Breaking free from confinement has been a driving theme for authors as diverse as Jane Austen, Henri Charrière and Geoffrey Household

Published: 25 Sep 2019

3 out of 5 stars.

The Three Musketeers review – sweetly slapdash swashbuckling
3 out of 5 stars.

It’s all for one and one for all in an enthusiastic if haphazard riot of dad jokes, dodgy accents and gleeful gallivanting

Published: 3 May 2019

4 out of 5 stars.

The Three Musketeers review - a joyful twist on the classic swashbuckler
4 out of 5 stars.

Themes of kindness and inclusivity are threaded cleverly through a lavish, thrilling adaptation

Published: 22 Jul 2018

Top 10s Top 10 books about miscarriages of justice

From the Central Park Five to little Briony’s destructive decision in Atonement, here are some of the most affecting real and fictional tales of injustice

Published: 11 Apr 2018

Top 10s Top 10 escapes in literature

From Alexandre Dumas to Stephen King and John le Carré, these stories of nerve and endurance are perennially compelling

Published: 21 Dec 2016

4 out of 5 stars.

The Pajama Men review – surreal swashbucklers do Dumas
4 out of 5 stars.

Pickling The Three Musketeers in their loopy imaginations, the storytelling double-act delight with a series of ad-libbed sketches

Published: 19 Sep 2016

Top 10s Top 10 books about middle age

Finding work that confronts this difficult stage of life with honesty and wisdom is not easy – but these writers show it can be done

Published: 15 Jun 2016

Children's books The Story of a Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas - review

smileyblondeee: ‘I’ve always been aware of the story as a ballet and I know there’s a film adaptation but had never seen the book. This is one I’ll definitely be reading every Christmas’

Published: 22 Jan 2016

The story of The Nutcracker – in pictures

From the folk tales of ETA Hoffman and Alexandre Dumas to Tchaikovsky’s ballet and beyond, translater Sarah Ardizzone traces the evolution of one of our best-loved Christmas stories

Gallery

Published: 24 Dec 2015

Alexandre Dumas' Chateau de Monte-Cristo counting on fund-raising appeal

The former home of Alexandre Dumas, the much-loved author, needs nearly €1m to stop it falling down

Published: 8 Mar 2015

Top 10s The top 10 civil war novels

From Roman legions to medieval mayhem, Cavaliers and Roundheads to the crushing of ideals in the 20th century, there is fertile ground for drama in civil war, writes Robert Wilton

Published: 22 Oct 2014

A book for the beach A book for the beach: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Imogen Russell Williams: With high adventure, derring-do and thrills to keep the drowsiest sunbather awake, this is perfect holiday reading

Published: 4 Aug 2014

Books blog Readers' panel: experiences of books in prison

From Othello to Oscar Wilde - four readers explain why books mean so much to people in jail, and name the books that helped them to survive it

Published: 7 May 2014

Top 10s The top 10 impostors in fiction

From the Wizard of Oz to Tom Ripley, novelist Stephen May unmasks literature's most compelling pretenders

Published: 12 Mar 2014

Another view A fencing champion on BBC swashbuckler The Musketeers

Interview by Laura Barnett

Fleet of foot and sharp with his weapon, D'Artagnan takes the gold medal for his TV sabre-rattling, writes fencing champion Karim Bashir

Published: 3 Feb 2014

Published: 3 Feb 2014

One for all: new Machiavellian role for Capaldi in BBC's Musketeers

Actor renowned for role of ruthless spin doctor Malcolm Tucker to play Cardinal Richelieu in adaptation of Dumas classic book

Published: 27 Dec 2013

hlcarpenter.com Books podcast Books podcast: Biography lives on - from David Foster Wallace to Dumas

There's a huge appetite for reading biographies, and thousands are written each year. But is it still a relevant kind of writing? Three authors tell us their Life stories

Podcast

Published: 26 Oct 2012

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