Charles Dickens

Following the critically acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories: The Cricket on the Hearth and The Haunted Man. Neither story has been dramatised...

Synopsis: Spirited is a new movie available on Apple + which gives a modern take on Charles Dicken’s classic Christmas story ‘A Christmas Carol’.   The Story In this take on A Christmas Carol. The various...

TOBY JONES (The Detectorists, Sherlock, Harry Potter, Captain America) is to star in a new production of Charles Dickens’ ‘lost’ sequel to A Christmas Carol. The Chimes, written by Dickens as a follow-up to his famous Christmas story,...

Synopsis: Christmas. A Victorian family prepares a toy theatre for their annual performance of A Christmas Carol. The grandmother narrates the story, whilst some of the children change the scenery and slide the cardboard characters on...

Scifipulse was recently fortunate enough to catch up with Elinor Caiman Sands. Author of many short stories. Additionally, Elinor is the former Deputy Editor of the British Labour party’s Progress political education organisation. She also paints and creates...

Synopsis: In this thrilling update to a Dicken’s classic. A gang of street hustlers plan the heist of the century.   The Story Charles Dicken’s classic of Oliver Twist gets a modern reboot, which sees an...

Synopsis: Oliver learns a devastating, life-changing truth about his origins — and puts his entire adoptive community in danger when he rebels against the oppressive regime that rules over it. Review: Gary Whitta’s post-apocalyptic re-imagination of...

Synopsis: OLIVER re-imagines Charles Dickens’ most famous orphan as a post-apocalyptic superhero fighting to liberate a war-ravaged England while searching for the truth about his own mysterious origins. Review: Written by Gary Whitta with artwork from...

Synopsis: Enjoy this new version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in graphic novel form – Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost. Review: As a fan of Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ I have collected a good mix of...

Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties by Dav Pilkey Published by Scholastic Books, August 29, 2017. Hardcover of 256 pages at $9.99. Intended for ages 7 and up, grades 2 and up. The cover: Dog...

The cover: An unidentified woman who wears leather gauntlets, holding two pistorls covered with all kinds of mechanical devices, looking down upon a publication laying on a glass table. It’s the newest edition of Amberleigh’s Quartley...