‘The Martian Chronicles’ tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness...

It’s a building with character. It has an oak-panelled elevator with brass fixtures and magnificent gargoyles prowling the façade. It’s a showpiece of Manhattan architecture. But it’s also...

We are all storytellers - through stories, we make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent...

In this, his first novel, the life and career of the narcissistic, gifted and handsome hero, Amory Blaine, echoes Fitzgerald's own life in several ways. First, as a young man growing up in the age...

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and...

In this, Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, loosely based on his tortured life with Zelda, we follow the wild, quarrelsome and pleasure-seeking careers of Anthony and Gloria Patch from success and...

It is 1972. Neil Countryman is from the public high school in north Seattle. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime. John William Barry is from a private academy for...

Now a major ITV drama series, Mr Selfridge is a tale of Edwardian excess and the rise and fall of maverick retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge. In 1909 London's first dedicated department store opened...

As ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ draws to its climax, the Phantom—one of the most mysterious and romantic figures ever created—carries Christine, the young opera singer and victim of his...