Here are some imaginative people who have combined two of life’s great pleasures: books and food. This list will leave your stomach growling… Design Criminals Edible Catalogue, designed by Andreas ...
There has been numerous intriguing items belonging to writers and fascinating books that have been put up for auction; from a rare, watercolour miniature of Jane Austen’s lost love Tom ...
Many writers have now had their birthdays marked with a decorative Google Doodle: from Jules Verne’s interactive, underwater themed doodle to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan becoming acquainted with the ...
We all know that novelists devote a staggering amount of their energies on structural details: the enticing openings, the teasing suspense at the end of each chapter, the rising dramas, ...
All May and June: The Rebel Dining Society’s ‘The Green Hour’ Dinner, £40 The Rebel Dining Society returns with the second instalment of The Green Hour, an exciting collaboration with ...
The other night I was driving home from college, ruminating about my first draft of a short story. Everyone was behaving too reasonably. Someone should be glum. No, surly. It ...
The BBC’s adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and the White, recently came to its open-ended conclusion, and consequently spurred on passionate discussions on internet forums and the ...
Aldous Huxley reckoned science and literature were alike because both observe the world and attempt to interpret it in words. Fair enough, but when science is described in literature, there’s ...
So far in my writing, I’ve tended to trust in the belief of James Joyce: “In the particular is contained the universal.” But in seeking publication for my own work, ...
It’s the first time I’ve been to the Imperial War Museum since I was 11 and I’m a bit disorientated, so I ask a member of staff where the Once ...
It is often said that the job of the poet is not to tell you what she felt, but to recreate the event or experience as closely as possible so ...
A new film adaptation has brought attention once again to Graham Green’s 1937 masterpiece Brighton Rock. I took a trip down to Brighton, the beloved venue of my student days, ...
Event Listings, February 2011 From Egyptian mummies to the daddy of folk, via French farce and classical music, there’s so much more to February than hearts and flowers. Wander lonely ...
It’s official: Amazon now sells more e-books in the US than it does paperbacks. The gradual disappearance of the physical book could be the long-awaited solution to that old problem: ...
I bought a new diary today. One of my New Year’s resolutions, probably like thousands of other people across the country, was to get into the discipline of writing a ...
I think that horror has traditionally been considered a “minor” genre, especially in Spain. Sometimes we seem to forget that horror is one of the oldest genres in the history ...
Money and sport go together. In the last few weeks, as the credibility of cricket wobbled under allegations of corruption and match-fixing , I’ve been reading the funny and satirically ...
After reading the excellent collection of stories in this month’s North London issue, I’ve been trying to think of other short stories I’ve read set in North London. It was tougher ...
It’s not often I’ve heard an audience at a fiction event let out a collective gasp of horror. It’s a thrilling sound, and last week it reinvigorated my passion for ...
My short story diet this week has been An Elegy for Easterly, the debut collection by Petina Gappah, published last year and winner of the Guardian First Book Award. The ...
