Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…

A review of the film of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

Chronicles of Heaven Unshackled examines the presence (and absence) of God in the English novel, with particular reference to Tolkien and…

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

A review of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

Vampires are currently one of the biggest phenomena in popular culture. They are central to hit television series like True Blood, Being…