Books
A bedtime book every evening, an extract with our own foreword, walking routes through the places writers knew, and where to borrow the book free or buy it.
Book at bedtime: Pride and Prejudice and the price of a good match
The 1813 novel about how money decided who married whom. The English text is free on Project Gutenberg; Austen's house at Chawton opens Wednesday to Sunday, adult £15.50.
Bedtime book: Dickens's Bleak House and the best fog in literature
Chapter one of Bleak House is fifteen minutes of reading and the best description of London fog in literature. The text is in the public domain, so we print the passage in full — and the author's house on Doughty Street is open Wednesday to Sunday.
Russian-language books in Britain: where to buy them and what delivery costs
London has a bookshop that calls itself the UK's only English-Russian one: Bloomsbury, 10am to 9pm on weekdays. UK delivery starts at £3.50 and is free over £50 or £100 depending on the shop — and libraries lend the books for nothing.