Emile Zola's masterpiece brought vividly to life, dramatised by Diana Griffiths. Set in 1860s France, a struggling mining community takes refuge in the revolutionary young outsider, Étienne ...

Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant with a fierce passion for the truth. A friend of Cezanne and Manet, he started out as a journalist and never lost the desire to hunt down a ...