Are you team Emma or team Elizabeth? Pro-Darcy or more enamoured of Captain Wentworth? There’s no escaping Jane Austen and the indelible mark her characters have left as the anniversary of her birth ...

For generations, science fiction stories have used mankind’s inclination towards innovation to tell stories of all stripes - from the inspiring to the terrifying. This extends to the big screen, too.

Countless fictional characters from television and film transcend “fan favorite” status to achieve global icon status. In no particular order, here are 5 of the greatest fictional characters of all ...

We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn people they know or ...

Do great recurring characters in mystery novels you love become old friends? You learn so much about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. In his ...

Stacks of books have been written about the kings and queens of England and Henry the Eighth. But few books have chronicled the lesser-known side-characters in history until now with Adrian Bliss’s ...