Writers

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

How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?

Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season

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

Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades

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

From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation

Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions

Grande dame

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