250 Years of Jane Austen

8th December 2025.Reading time 7 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti December 16th marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of the most brilliant and emancipated English writers of all time: Jane Austen. Born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire, Jane, the second oldest of eight children, spent her childhood and youth here inspiringly. Her father, […]

Joseph Conrad – 100th Anniversary of his Death

5th August 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

August 3, 2024, marks one hundred years since the death of Joseph Conrad, one of English literature’s most revered writers. Born in 1857 as Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland, he was raised in Russia due to his father being forced into exile there. After his parents died, his uncle brought him back to Poland and had […]

Imagining a book cover – Psychological Thriller

23rd October 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

With the vast array of images available in the archive at Universal Images Group our blog site Kaleidoscope set the challenge of finding suitable images for a book cover of an imaginary psychological thriller. Book covers, especially for fiction, allow for a creativity to flow. The cover design and imagery needs to draw in the […]