Author: Dr Andrew Norman

Bournemouth was known as a health resort long before it became a holiday destination. W.H. Smith was one of the first patrons of the towns National...

Jane Austen is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English literary canon, and recent film and television adaptations of her works hav...

Thomas Hardy was shy to a fault. He surrounded his house, Max Gate, with a dense curtain of trees, shunned publicity and investigative reporters, a...