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Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?

The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan

The great man’s peerless poetry is not the “soppy stuff” of cheap romanticism, but a harsh, unsparing — and often beautiful — look at the world

When Larkin is inevitably denounced, I’ll be reading his forbidden work by torchlight

James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’

This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir

The decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs

Philip Larkin’s long association with Kingsley and Martin Amis resulted in the poet being misrepresented and misunderstood

The cultivation of conviviality became the golden thread of Western civilisation

The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse