The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against her parents, runs away with the radical poet Percey Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Booth) – taking her ...

Mary Shelley (technically still Godwin: she and the poet had not yet wed because he was still inconveniently married to his first wife) would produce the bulk of her Gothic masterpiece over the ...

Dame Muriel Spark, then one of Britain’s most distinguished living writers, was interviewed for a BBC documentary. During ...

Frankenstein’s monster is not so monstrous after all. Mohamed Adel, a Nineties-born student at the Academy of Arts’ Theatre ...

Many technologists have grown bold in predicting how soon artificial general intelligence. But others dispel any claim that ...

Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of ...

LIZ Woolley spoke to the Henley Archaeological and Historical Group on May 6 about children and war, describing their experiences in Oxfordshire during the Second World War. This was extremely timely, ...

Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin), her unruly stepsister Claire and the (married) poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. They excited each other by inventing ghost stories. Mary later claimed to have had a ...

King has always been a master of taking the prosaic and turning it into poetry, the monstrous beauty of his writing stemming from the fact that the horror almost always begins in ...

Award winning writer and editor at the Barrelhouse Tara Campbell held a speculative fiction workshop hosted on zoom on May 20 ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.