He is an agreeable, ingenuous but also resourceful boy. The story of his encounter ... Alfred’s cook makes their dinner from her book of Catherine Dickens’ recipes, adapted to what is ...

The Dickens Boy, by Tom Keneally. Vintage. $32.99. Charles Dickens's son Edward (known as Plorn) followed his older brother Alfred to Australia in 1868. In The Dickens Boy, Tom Keneally has ...

Gottlieb is an elegant writer and his book is admirably illustrated with at least one likeness of each unsmiling child. But as he allows that the Dickens boys, who bore the brunt of their father's ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. New book The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens tells the real-life story of two young boys sent from England to the prison — and the shocking moment the day ...