There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press

The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel

A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead

The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry

The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard

A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender

The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?

The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book

Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed

Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing