Chris Dickens

Libby Purves meets actor Jack Lowden; Bobby Teale, a former associate of The Kray twins; Bernard Lynch, an openly gay Roman Catholic priest and sculptor Sophie Dickens. Actor Jack Lowden plays athlete and devout Scottish Christian Eric Liddell in the new ...  

a small house near Welwyn, received in 1862 and treasured for the rest of his life, will go under tha hammer at Christie’s in London. The Welwyn Hatfield Times this week delves into the history behind the silver jug. For more, see today’s edition.  

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The Southeast Tourism Society has once again selected the Dickens Christmas Show & Festivals as one of the Top 20 Events for the month of November 2012.  The best events across the Southeast compete to receive the prestigious Top 20 Events designation.  

On Home, there's a tension between Midtown Dickens' wild-eyed spontaneity and the subtle sophistication and songcraft. by Chris Parker Everything changes; that's just living. The axiom has been especially true for quixotic Durham act Midtown Dickens, a songwriting pair of lifelong best friends who've never let their band sit still.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Ding dong, let the bells sound for an unlikely battle of Christmas fiction book sales: Charles Dickens v Katie Price. Or, to be more precise, A Christmas Carol v Santa Baby. Price's Santa Baby sold 5,200 hardback copies last week while the 1843 Dicken's ...  

Charles Dickens, the iconic 19th-century English author who penned such classics as A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, filled his works with Christian references in a bid to encourage authentic devotion to Jesus Christ. But scholars and critics have ...  

“On 4 May, 1858, he gave two performances in the County Rooms, now the Music Hall, reading from Dombey and Son at the matinee and A Christmas Carol in the evening. He returned to the Granite City on 16 May, 1866, when he read from David Copperfield and ...