Boz Spotlight Archive
Repository of highlighted Dickens-related works
Highlighted December 4, 2023 - February 17, 2024
My Life on the Road with A Christmas Carol
by Gerald Dickens
Dickens' great great grandson has been performing the Carol for over thirty years!
Highlighted November 25, 2023 - December 4, 2023
The Personal History or Charles Dickens
by Michael Allen
Based on new research!
Highlighted October 7, 2023 - November 25, 2023
Dickensland
by Lee Jackson
The Curious History of Dickens's London
Highlighted September 11, 2023 - October 7, 2023
Charles Dickens Puzzles
by Julian Morgan
A fun and challenging romp through the world of Dickens!
Highlighted December 16, 2022 - September 11, 2023
The Secret Diary of Charles Dickens, Aged 13¾
by Lee Jackson
Charles Dickens, aged 13¾, living in Johnson Street, Camden Town, yearns to make his way in the world.
Highlighted October 26, 2022 - December 16, 2022
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver’s capacious, ingenious, wrenching, and funny survivor’s tale is a virtuoso present-day variation on Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield — Booklist
An Oprah's Book Club Selection
Highlighted September 28, 2022 - October 26, 2022
Dickens and Travel
by Lucinda Hawksley
The Start of Modern Travel Writing
Highlighted October 31, 2021 - September 28, 2022
Dickens and Staplehurst
by Gerald Dickens
A Biography of a Rail Crash
Highlighted September 24, 2021 - October 31, 2021
Charles Dickens - My Life
Edited by Derwin Hope
The life of Charles Dickens told in his own words
Highlighted June 8, 2021 - September 24, 2021
The Artful Dickens
by John Mullan
The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist
Highlighted December 10, 2020 - June 8, 2021
Dickens on Railways
Edited by Tony Williams
A Great Novelist's Travels by Train
Highlighted November 13, 2020 - December 10, 2020
A Christmas Pastby John Trotter
A short story prequel to A Christmas Carol. Find out why Ebenezer Scrooge came to despise Christmas.
Highlighted September 29, 2020 - November 13, 2020
The Gospel in DickensEdited by Gina Dalfonzo
Readable excerpts of the most memorable scenes in Dickens that reveal the Christian vision and values that suffuse all his work.
Highlighted September 15, 2020 - September 29, 2020
Simply Dickensby Paul Schlicke
Charles Dickens' remarkable life in less than 100 pages by a distinguished Dickens scholar.
Highlighted August 3, 2020 - September 15, 2020
The Mystery of Charles Dickensby A.N. Wilson
A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens
Highlighted July 10, 2020 - August 3, 2020
Oliver Twist - The ManuscriptThe original manuscript in Charles Dickens’s handwriting
Foreword by Simon Callow
Highlighted April 23, 2020 - July 10, 2020
The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Pete Orford
Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel and Our Endless Attempts to End it.
Highlighted February 12, 2020 - April 23, 2020
Reading Dickens Differentlyby Leon Litvack (Editor), Nathalie Vanfasse (Editor)
A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies. Provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways.
Highlighted October 10, 2019 - February 12, 2020
A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens
The Dickens classic in a new Seasons Edition. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions.
Highlighted Aug 5, 2019 - October 10, 2019
Palaces of Pleasureby Lee Jackson
From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Highlighted Dec 4, 2018 - Aug 5, 2019
Finding Scroogeby Jason C. McDonald
Once upon a time – of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve...
Highlighted Sep 29, 2018 - Dec 4, 2018
The Daily Charles Dickens Quotes - A Year of Quotesby James R. Kincaid
This collection mines the British author's beloved novels and Christmas stories as well as his lesser-known sketches and letters for "an around-the-calendar set of jolts, soothings, blandishments, and soarings."
Highlighted Dec 7, 2017 - Sep 29, 2018
Dickens and Christmasby Lucinda Hawksley
Dickens' influence on the celebration of Christmas as told by his great great great granddaughter.
Highlighted Nov 2, 2017 - Dec 7, 2017
Mr Dickens and His Carolby Samantha Silva
Delightful novel based on the writing of Dickens' famous Christmas book. Told with true Dickensian flair!
Highlighted Oct 10, 2017 - Nov 2, 2017
Dog Diaries - Tiny Timby Kate Klimo
Delightful fiction based on Timber Doodle, the shaggy little terrier that Dickens brought home from America in 1842 and became a household favorite.
Highlighted Feb 4, 2017 - Oct 10, 2017
The Man Who Invented ChristmasBy Les Standiford (2008)
The story of how Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol rescued his career and revived our holiday spirits. Movie version starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce is in production and set to be released during Christmas 2017.
Highlighted Sep 12, 2016 - Feb 4, 2017
A Christmas CodaBy Will Todd
A well-written and interesting sequel to A Christmas Carol with a Dickensian feel. Easily the best Carol sequel I have read.
Highlighted Sep 12, 2016 - Oct 18, 2016
On Top of the World (Until the Bell Chimes)By David Lamb
A modern spin on Dickens' A Christmas Carol that perfectly combines humor and romance in a story re-imagined for our digital, consumerist age.
Highlighted Feb 13, 2016 - Sep 12, 2016
Charles Dickens and His CircleHistorian and award-winning author Lucinda Hawksley explores the life of her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens
Highlighted Nov 24, 2015 - Feb 13, 2016
Dickens Rochester/Chatham MapBy David Perdue
Learn more about Dickens' childhood home and how he revisited the area in his novels.
Highlighted June 23, 2015 - Nov 24, 2015
Death and Mr Pickwick: A NovelBy Stephen Jarvis
Epic and controversial retelling of the relationship between Dickens and illustrator Robert Seymour in the creation of The Pickwick Papers
Highlighted Mar 24, 2015 - June 23, 2015
Fezziwig: A LifeBy Danny Kuhn
In the midst of Britain's Industrial Revolution, one of Charles Dickens' most beloved characters is living a full life, adventurous and lusty, but touched by scandal.
"A rollicking good read"
Highlighted Feb 26, 2015 - Mar 24, 2015
Boz and the Bard
Herb Moskovitz takes a lively look at Dickens and Shakespeare
Highlighted Jan 26, 2015 - Feb 26, 2015
London by Dickens
Dickens' birthday is on February 7. Celebrate by checking out the most unique and exciting Dickensian DVD to come along in a very long time.
So what is so wonderful about this DVD? The answer is that it eschews the usual Dickensian greatest hits and, instead, goes off in a very different direction. To be specific, it deals with Dickens' lesser known short writings. It is, in essence, a montage drawn from "Sketches by Boz," "The Uncommercial Traveller," "Sketches of Young Couples," "The Mudfog Papers," and "The Pic-Nic Papers." How's that for something new and completely different!
It was made for American television and broadcast live in 1958 and stars a very young Alan Bates.
The DVD is available exclusively from Creative Arts Television.
Highlighted Jan 3, 2015 - Jan 26, 2015
The Last Chapter
by Lyn Squire
An original solution to the Drood mystery.
