Profile

A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library

The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates

A controversial writer who could produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous

A satirist of genius who mercilessly mocked the modern world

The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past

Colin MacInnes tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

A sexually voracious bisexual buffoon who was rescued from infamy by powerful friends

With his well-paid white-collar job in the capital, 30-year-old Nick ought to be living in clover — so why isn’t he?

Labour insiders are concerned by the energy secretary

Denied the chance to play his comedy idol in a biopic, the Alan Partridge star has found another way