340 years after John Milton’s death, Leonie Dunn considers Milton’s epic portrayal of the Fall of Man

A tale of passion, perseverance and faith, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is a gem of American literature, says Shanda Moorghen

As Joanna Trollope releases her updated version of Jane Austen’s novel, Elizabeth Mitchell examines the original work

Wuthering Heights is the perfect book to curl up with on the sofa on a cold winter’s day and devour in a sitting, says Elizabeth Linsley

Don’t be put off by literary classics. Paul Reilly provides an introduction to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Olivia Stevens revisits the novel that captured the Jazz Age – and our imagination

Nafisi “invites us to join her as citizens of her ‘Republic of Imagination,’ a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.”