Jake Kerridge

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jake Kerridge

“This is my first book that will not be published in Russia,” says Sergei Lebedev, looking, not for the last time in our conversation, unspeakably weary. After a moment, however, his face brightens. “But my Ukrainian friends and colleagues have been able to read it in Russian. And they’ve said: ‘you’ve done good.’”Lebedev is currently one of the most admired novelists from Russia, if not in Russia.

1 week ago | msn.com | Jake Kerridge

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1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jake Kerridge

Angel Studios’ new animated film The King of Kings is an unusual Biblical biopic that depicts the life of Jesus in the form of stories told by Charles Dickens – voiced by Kenneth Branagh – to his young son Walter. I am not surprised that it has done record-breaking business for a Biblical animation in its opening weekend, taking almost $20 million in the US alone. It’s not just that those two bearded master-storytellers, Jesus and Dickens, are both always good box-office in their own right.

1 week ago | msn.com | Jake Kerridge

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1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jake Kerridge

He came up with one of his most memorable examples in his very first novel: Stiggins, the perpetually drunk Methodist preacher in The Pickwick Papers. (On being offered a drink by Sam Weller: "I despise them all. If - if - there is any one of them less odious than another, it is the liquor called rum. Warm, my dear young friend, with three lumps of sugar to the tumbler").