Writers
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions