Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

THESE days, it seems every celebrity wants to put their name to a book club: among the rich and famous, they are as common as ...

Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells, a writer, put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own ...

FLASHBACKS: Arriving four years after the attack on the Twin Towers, Spielberg’s loose adaptation of the HG Wells classic – ...

Twenty years ago this week, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds opened in British cinemas, offering us a big-budget replay ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

It's been a summer of classics for me. A series of events made me peer beyond the here-and-new into the phenomenon of ...

Ira Wells has been elected as president of PEN Canada. Wells is a critic, essayist, professor of literature, and author of ...

WHEN The Wanted singer Max George woke up from life-saving heart surgery, his girlfriend Maisie Smith was at his ­bedside.

The rags to riches star did have a genuine affection for Essex, in particular for the Southend seaside which had given him so much pleasure as a boy ...

Few horror stories are as influential as H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel, The War of the Worlds. Written more than a century ago, this story introduced readers of the time to a fear they'd never fathomed ...