The power of great literature is at the heart of this affecting tale. Matilda, a young child on the isolated Pacific island of Bougainville in 1991, is coming to terms with a creeping civil war when ...

In an uneven but ultimately lovable novel, Lloyd Jones gives us an unusual setting and a cast of characters to match. Mister Pip mixes Dickens with life on a war-torn tropical island. Photograph: ...

Freestyle Releasing, Freestyle Digital Media and Dominion Pictures have acquired theatrical and DVD/VOD rights to Mr Pip, starring Hugh Laurie. Directed by Andrew Adamson (The Chronicles Of Narnia: ...

After directing the first two installments of both the Shrek and Chronicles of Narnia franchises, director Andrew Adamson is venturing into more mature territory for his next project. Deadline reports ...

Revealing more would ruin whatever semblance of a plot there is here, if you can avoid the gargantuan holes on the way to the finish line. There is a lot wrong with “Mr. Pip,” but perhaps most of all ...

With his rumpled tropical suit and wide-eyed look of perpetual concern, Hugh Laurie's Mr Pip – the only white man on the island – could be a character out of a Conrad novel. But it's 1991 and he has ...

Like most readers of fiction, I find myself sometimes speaking of fictional characters as if they were real friends. Who is Scout Finch if not a dear childhood companion? And Holden Caulfield, if not ...

Mister Pip is named for the compelling orphan at the center of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The bravery and self-sacrifice of a man who wraps himself in Pip's identity rules New Zealand author ...

Set on the South Pacific island of Bougainville during its 1990s civil war, New Zealand author Jones’s beguiling novel about the power of the imagination is full of people telling each other stories.